How did I forget?!
Geez. In my state of pregnancy stupidity I forgot some of our fun stuff! The day before Wes left for FL was a Monday. I was getting work done in bed, and Ashleigh and Wes were downstairs. Ashleigh was enjoying her Curious George as usual. During one of the between show shows they showed some kids bowling. Ashleigh thought that this was just the coolest thing ever! Of course, to a child who has never seen bowling it is. Wes asked Ashleigh if she would like to go bowling. She was quite excited about the prospect and came upstairs to ask me if I wanted to go bowling with she and Daddy. Of course, I assumed that she and Wes were rolling a ball through the living room or something. I had no idea what had gone on. Just as I joked with her about her “bowling” my cell phone vibrates. I have a new text message. Now, if you’ve been around us recently you know that we are Twitter addicts. Our church started using Twitter a few months ago to keep every aware of any prayer requests and announcements. Since then we have been active chatters on Twitter. So badly that we had to upgrade to unlimited text messaging. So, back to my cell phone. It vibrates and I see a text message from Twitter. I check it, and it is Wes asking if anyone wants to join us for some Duckpin Bowling. I just laughed and sent him a message telling him how Ash had asked me if I wanted to go bowling, but I thought she meant a game with Daddy downstairs.
After a day of planning we ended up at Chick-fil-a for dinner (really, are you surprised?) and then across the street to the bowling alley. Ashleigh was just beyond excited. She was asking a million questions, looking all around, not really sure what was going on. We went to AMF Westview, where on Monday nights it’s only $7 pp to bowl from 7-10 PM! During the day shoes are $4.25 and then it’s $3.50 per game. hhmm…which did we choose?
Luckily for us we had ordered a new video camera which arrived that afternoon, so we have some great (or so I assume) video of Ashleigh bowling. Wes says it’s edited, but the file is HD and way too big for the internet. So, he’s going to figure out how to make it a better file size so that we can upload it. Ashleigh had a blast. Ok, we all did. After the first frame she had a score of 8 and Wes and I were a 3 and 4. Ooops. We caught up to her in the end, but she did great. Hopefully we’ll have the video soon to show you. In the mean time, when you see Ashleigh you can ask her about bowling. She loved it!