It was a pretty quiet weekend around here filled with typical activities — errands, cleaning up around the house, working on a few outside projects, and a couple social outings. On Saturday, we went bowling with Jason, Debbie, Becca, and the Gavin & Jen clan. Yep, bowling. Debbie had informed us that it was National Bowling Day, and we could thus all play one free game. (What would we do without Debbie and her random knowledge? Yay Debbie!)
Carin and Gavin
It was Carina’s first time bowling, and she was HILARIOUS. Knocking down even a single pin was cause for celebration, and led to her jumping up and down, cheering, and running back to Jen saying “Mommy I did it!” She also cheered for Gavin every single time. “Yay Daddy, yaaaaaay!” That’s probably reason enough to have kids right there.
(Side note: when Debbie sent the email about going bowling, Jen wrote back saying that they’d “been planning to expose Carina to bowling.” I love the word choice, as if bowling is a disease. Expose her now so she doesn’t catch it later! Heehee.)
Eleanor and Jose
Drake and Eleanor came along too. You can’t really bowl if you can’t even stand, so they had to be content with getting passed from person to person to person in an endless loop — an activity that they seemed surprisingly content with.
We all went to hibachi afterward, and watching Carina attempt to use chopsticks was also highly amusing. Toddlers are very entertaining, as it turns out. Especially when you don’t have to deal with the nap time insubordination that Jen blogged about yesterday.
The other social outing of the weekend was seeing Inception. It was really good. It also REALLY messed with my head. I thought I followed almost everything, until I came home and started thinking about it some more and realized I have TONS of questions. I’m still thinking about a movie a whole day later, which is the sign of a good movie in my book. If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend you go.
