bowling for evan's fourth birthday

Evan had his fourth birthday a couple weeks ago, and I'm about to share seventeen pictures.  Seventeen pictures seems excessive, but I narrowed it down as best I could.  I started thinking about why I need seventeen pictures of just two hours of our life, and the reason is, because they tell the whole story.  When I'm doing things with my girls, like going bowling or making cookies or swimming, I feel like there is no way I could ever forget it.  How could I forget how little they are, the things they are just learning, what their laughs sound like?  It seems like these things will stay as vivid in my memory as the day they happen.  But, the truth is, they fade.  They fade quickly.  Without the ridiculously detailed stories I tell on this blog, I would have forgotten many things.  Not necessarily important things, but things nonetheless.  And I love going back and reading about what we did on a random Tuesday or Laci's first camping trip.

That being said, here is the story of Evan's fourth birthday.

There were two birthday cakes for the birthday boy.  It was Cars theme again...the boy knows what he likes.

Waiting...daddy and girls waiting for cake...Laci waiting for bowling.  Yes, she is as tired as she appears.  Sometimes bowling takes precedence over naptime.

Apparently, bowling shoes make you jump "really, really* high."  Even if they are the smallest size available.  Also, she didn't want to take them off.  Ever.

Bowling balls are "really, really* heavy" but she can "do it by myself."

The kids had fun, even if they lost interest before the first game was over, didn't care whose turn it was, and were just as happy to carry the balls around as they were to roll them down the lane.

No surprise, Mia wanted to get in on the action too.  She slept through her first visit to the bowling alley, so this was all new for her.

 And Ryan had the job of protecting anxious fingers from the ball return.

So fun.

*Really, really is Laci's current favorite adjective.  As in this is "really, really fun" or this is "really, really yummy" or I'm "really, really over this post."