Yesterday afternoon we went bowling! We picked up Joe's friend on the way. I had five boys ages 6-13 with me. We paid for three games and we were so glad when the end of the third game was near! We were there for about two and half hours or slightly longer. The boys loved playing and it got them exercising without realizing they were exercising!

My boys are in a bowling league on Monday afternoons. They play in three man teams so Joe & James play on a team with another boy older than them, and John and Joel play on a team with a little boy that is right between their ages. They also get tokens for the Boardwalk which is an attached building that sports video games and rides. After their ten week league ends they get a pizza party. They also get a free game of bowling everyday which is one reason we went yesterday. We did spend some $$ though to play three games, shoe rentals, nachos, drinks, etc.....

We were all tired last night, but the boys didn't realize it was because of the bowling. I'm sore today around the middle and I slept well too! With ten frames a game, and unless you bowl a strike you're bowling two times a frame, so it comes out to about sixty times each bending your body and aiming for those pins. I have decided it's great eye-hand coordination too! I've been trying to teach them to look at the pin way down there and focus on that when they bowl. It works!

Now my six-year old has his own style of bowling. He uses the two hand method, where you take this giant ball and kind of throw it like an underhanded shot-put. It works! Many times he doesn't even hit the bumper, but seems to be able to keep the ball in the middle of the lane.

Well I better go, my boys are wrestling each other instead of wrestling their minds at school.