Pump-It-Up Play

Left: Jonathan looking cute Right: Daddy checking Jon's foot

At left: Me carrying T. up the stairs to the slide.

Dave and I took the kids and our nephew Trystan to Pump-It-Up play on Friday. Jonathan calls it Pump a Dump. We love this place! For an hour and a half, adults and kids can play on all of this great inflatable stuff, like a huge slide, The Gauntlet (an obstacle course type thing with short slides, rock-climbing walls, etc.) and bounce in big bounce houses. We love it because it is cheaper than a movie, because Dave and I don't have to pay for ourselves but we have just as much fun as the kids. Not to mention, it is awesome exercise! We never spend that long at the gym. I mean who could stay on the elliptical for 90 minutes? Some sort of lunatic.

Trystan had never been, and he was a little hesitant (okay, pretty much terrified!) at first. So I carried him up the ladder to the big slide, and he went down all by himself! Then he was addicted, he wanted to do the slide over and over and over again. Next came the gauntlet. You have to crawl into it and it looks kind of dark inside. So I basically pushed him through the whole thing the first time, but then he was SO proud of himself. "I not scared anymore Aunt Jamie!" He was so sweet. He thanked me for taking him and when he was leaving our house he said "I had fun at that place." We left a little early because Jonathan had a minor injury (he jumped and sort of sprained something in his foot; he still has some issues with his feet and legs and jumping without shoes is not the best thing for him).

So this is our new favorite thing to do, it has replaced even the zoo.