Stay at Home Daddy Week 2

After such a fun week with Neal off after Thanksgiving, we were all thrilled to get another one this past week! We planned some fun as a family, a day for just the two of us, and Neal was just looking forward to making breakfast for Meredith (who loved that he did that for her instead of me while he was off before)

On his first day off, he and I had a full movie day! We saw Up in the Air, had lunch, then saw Avatar in 3D and then went out to dinner. It was such a nice, relaxing day - and we both loved getting to see 2 movies in one day - not to mention eating just as a couple two meals in a row! What a treat.

Later that week, we headed to the bowling alley - a new thing that Meredith had been asking us to do together. We had a great time - starting with Meredith's first turn - she (with Neal's help, of course) bowled her first ball. We waited, and waited and waited for it to get to the pins. Then, not only did it stop, it started rolling backwards. Luckily, the man who came to retrieve the ball also brought us a "slide" that she used to launch her ball for all the future frames. Everytime she would bowl, she would turn around and cheer "I won! I won!" She also liked to try to help me by staying right by my side and walk down with me or hold onto my pants. I would like to claim that my fear of whapping her in the head with a 12 lb ball contributed to my terrible performance, but I don't think that contributed that much!

Meredith using the "slide" to help the ball get down the lane a bit

My turn to "help" her bowl. Although, I was the one that needed the most help
The proof of how bad I am at bowling. And this was actually the "good" score card. I don't even want to go into how bad the other game was.
Jillian trying to sneak down to the lane for her turn.
Neal and his bowling girls.

Today we took just Meredith to see The Princess and the Frog. She has been very excited to see the movie with the green princess! She got a little "bored" in the middle, but in the end she said "I SO loved that!" Her favorite part was when the frogs turned back into the prince and the princess at the end, of course!