Daddy, I Want To Go Bowling!

For our date-night two weeks ago (10/9), Lovey took all of us bowling! The girls had a great time, a really great time, but when it was time to leave, we had to pull Becca away from the bowling alley...Literally. I mean we had to pull the child from the seats, the table, the hand railing...anything Becca could grab onto on our way out - she was out-of-her-mind screaming & crying. And when Lovey told her, "You have lost your little baby mind," it only fueled Becca's outburst.

We had a similar outburst from Becca tonight - Becca was begging us to go bowling:

"I wanna go bowling, Momma, I wanna go bowling!"
And when she didn't like my response, Becca begged Daddy,
"Daddy, I want to go bowling!!"

The only way I could get her to stop crying (and breathe) was to promise that we'd bake cookies after dinner. Becca mustered a barely audible, "OK" and then sniffled and sobbed all the way home from our trip to the Post Office. Becca's sad, sad cries and crocodile tears dried as we mixed & baked pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. (When I suggested we take a break from mixing the batter and eat our noodles, Becca's cries & tear-faucet turned on again. Sometimes it's OK to skip dinner & make cookies; tonight was that night).

Becca was completely happy breaking eggs, sifting flour, mixing the dry ingredients together and dumping them all in the KitchenAid. Her happiness reminded me of our bowling night. Here are the pictures from our date-night on Friday, 10/9:

Here's a "happy Becca" getting her bowling shoes on

Piece of cake!

Rebecca was so, so, so happy! She jumped up & down after every bowl

"There it goes!"

Rebecca is jumping again!

Miguel acted like she had done this many times before - it was funny to watch her,

& her attitude was like, "It's no big deal - I'm good!"

Looks like Lovey snuck in a turn - he got a spare

(We let the girls have our turns, which was great for them)

Miguel & Becca ended up carrying their bowling balls to the ramp! Strong girls

We had a great night bowling. Looks like bowling will be a frequent outing for the Kemp Kuties. And if we can't go bowling, baking cookies will be the alternative :)