Family Mellmann

I surprised the kids with an unannounced trip to a local bowling alley. Patrick called his friend, Calvin, to join us. When we pulled into the parking lot of the bowling alley the kids started to whine (my kids - Calvin enjoys bowling). Katherine, who has never been bowling in her life, yells "I *HATE* BOWLING". I ignored them all and went straight into the building where I met up with the rest of the surprise. Another Trinity family - with kids/friends in both Patrick's and Katherine's classes - plus a few more Trinity kids were already there playing. It suddenly went from the "worst day ever" to the best day of [Katherine's] life, and both kids got all excited and happy to be there. One of these days maybe they'll just learn to trust me when I say I have a fun surprise for them...or not.

Today we used another Pinterest find. Katherine, who loves to paint, got into it pretty quickly, but wasn't too interested in using the glue (a surprise given her usual over-use of the stuff). Patrick had trouble getting into it at all, but I think it was mostly because I made him get off the Xbox to do it. What he doesn't seem to get is that I was going to kick him off the Xbox for awhile anyway. They both came up with some artwork that suits them (I'll try to post pictures later), and I will have some artwork to hang on the wall above their computers. :)