family Cosmic bowling and then some

tonight was such an awesome night. I didn't do so great on my "diet" but i didn't do too bad either. Today i didn't get to go on my walk, since Chloe absolutely refused to take a nap and i didn't have a tall enough stroller to take her with me. We have an umbrella stroller but it is too low for even me to push, it really hurts my back. So instead when Phillip got home we packed up Chloe and headed for wal-wart (we had to buy a birthday present anyway). We walked all around wal-mart for an hour (and i pushed the cart with Chloe it it, that is good exercise! Then when we were leaving we decided to head to target to see if we could find a size 12m nightgown (not a 2 piece) for a friends daughter at Target. No such luck but we did spend another hour at Target, So a total of 2 hours walking (about 1 1/2 when you consider all the stopping to look at stuff).
After we were all done shopping we at dinner at applebees (which is where i didn't do so great, but not so bad) and Chloe had a meltdown and wouldn't eat very much. When she was done with her meltdown she had a great time. There was a couple in there with 2 seeing-eye dogs that they were training and Chloe LOVED them, and likewise they really really liked her. When we left applebees we decided that tonight we were going to go cosmic bowling, and take Chloe with us. She had an amazing time, and we even let her bowl. They have a little (read heavy) metal ramp that you use for young kids to put the ball on and push to make it down the lane. The first game we bowled Phillip totally stomped us (OK he won every game) and Chloe and i tied, either i really suck or she is really good. Maybe even a combination of the both, but i don't care, we had a great time.
For those of you that don't know Cosmic Bowling happens on the weekends, Friday and Saturday nights, from midnight-2am. It costs $10 and includes shoes. Its as many games as you can bowl in the 2hr time frame, they have black lights and music and is a really good time. Yes it was a late night for Chloe but we all enjoyed a nice family night together.
We only stayed for 1/2 the time since we were all really beat and Chloe was FINALLY starting to get tired, but it was most certainly worth the $10/person to have that great of a time. I honestly don't remember the last time i saw all 3 of us smiling and having that great of a time all at the same time. Too bad i forgot my camera at home....you can no proceed with the booing! I did get one picture on my cell phone, its really horrible because of the black lights but i will share it anyway.
Tomorrow evening we will be heading to Modesto for Carter's (a friend's son) 2nd birthday party, and Chloe is already excited. When i told her today that we were going to carter's party tomorrow she got a huge grin on her face. Then she walked around the house the rest of the day saying "carter's birthday party" "carters 2!".

well blogging world it is really really late and time for me to head to bed!

cosmic bowling with daddy....