The boys lunch date with dad.

For months now, Noah has been asking Spencer to take him "goaling"... we assumed he was asking to golfing (at least that's what we "thought" he was saying) so Spencer told him he'd have to wait until the weather was nicer.  Well Spring is here (kind of sort of; if you just forget that it was snowing here two days ago) and Noah's been harassing Spencer all week to go "goaling". Spencer is on spring break this week from school and he has a little more time between his jobs and school to spend with the boys, so he told Noah he'd take him GOLFING on Thursday (today).  His promise didn't please Noah because Noah didn't want to go GOLFING, he wanted to go "GOALING"!!!  Alright then, if "goaling" wasn't golfing, then what was it he wanted to do?!  We were puzzled but we did some brainstorming together and decided he must had been asking to go BOWLING!  Spencer asked Noah if BOWLING was what he meant to say and he immediately shook his head up and down! YES!  He wanted to go BOWLING! (How on earth did he mix up his "B's" with his "G's"?!)  It was settled then. On Thursday (today) Spencer was going to take the boys BOWLING down in Provo at Fat Cats (and I was asked to tag along, just because). 

The boys had a great time BOWLING! It had been a while since we'd gone last.  We made a lunch date out of bowling and fed the boys Costa Vida while each one took their turn on the alley.

Noah caught onto the idea of the game pretty quickly.

 Here he is eying his pins...

Ian also had a good game.. 

slow and steady was how he preferred to play the game. 

He only had a bowling speed of 7.7 mph 

while Cohen and Noah were bowling twice as fast,

if not faster than Ian.

 COHEN...

Oh jeez, 

where do I even begin with Cohen?!  

He LOVED bowling but he wanted to bowl EVERYONE'S rounds for them;

he didn't want to leave the bowling lane and take his seat.

When we told him he needed to take turns with his brothers this was the result:   

Tempertantrums.  

At least a dozen of them. 

Did I fail to mention that Cohen is almost 2 years old... yes.  It is true; he will be 2 years old in June but he has already been exhibiting the behavior of a 2 year old for the last couple of weeks!  Wailing and flailing anytime he doesn't get his way with things or people; he throws himself on the ground and wiggles around like a dying fish screaming at the top of his lungs. The other day I put him in his crib to take a nap and went out of the room for just a second; he wasn't happy about my exiting the room, so he began to have a conniption fit and threw his body face forward into the railing on his crib which in turn gave him a bloody nose.  He certainly has a good case of the "Terrible T's" (I prefer to call it that instead of the "Terrible Two's" because it usually begins circa the two's but does necessarily end by the time my children turn three; it usually only gets worse by then...finally by four, the "terribles" taper off a bit for a while, but I hear they return when children enter their teen years); he has the worst case yet that any of my children have EVER had!

He made this lunch date definitely all about him.  When Cohen was happy, everyone was happy, but when Cohen was upset, well.... let's just say that NOBODY was enjoying it.

He's lucky we think he's cute. We've decided to keep him and NOT sell him on EBAY(wink. wink.).

Below are the boys scores.  Aside from Spencer, Cohen had the best bowling score! He made a few strikes and spares.  What I question now is really whether Cohen is that good of a bowler (perhaps even a genius when it comes to bowling???) or if his attitude during bowling just dampened everyone elses spirits and made them all preform poorly.  Hmmm...