Bouncing Off the Walls!

Friday morning we lucked out and got a last minute chance to join our mommy group at Pump It Up, the bouncy house place. Some of our friends we haven't seen for a while were going to be there so we got ready and rushed out for an early playdate.


Peter still has a little trouble getting used to the loudness and overwhelming aspect of the place. We got into the "baby" jumper and he just sat in my lap clutching Chewy for the first 10 minutes. But then he seemed to get a burst of courage after watching his friends jump around. He inched away from me and started running and bouncing around the entire castle! It was the first time I've seen him completely enjoy himself and find true joy there!


Peter's personality started to come shining through. He climbed out of that bouncy house and into another one all by himself as I quickly tried to squeeze myself around all the kids and through the tunnel entryways. I try to stay close to him to catch him if he loses his balance, but he's just off and going all by himself. He ended up finding his friend Jack. They have explored a lot of things side-by-side over the months. Peter got upset at him when Jack wanted to touch his face.


But it was ok. Jack's mommy stepped in and the boys were all smiles again. Here's silly Jack sticking out his tongue!


The biggest news of the day was that Peter went down the slide! He saw other kids going up and down it all the time and I think he got intrigued. He ran over to the slide. There's like a two story ladder to get up to the top. I've never gone down the slide because I never really wanted to try to climb the ladder while carrying Peter, so I was NOT excited when he went over there.

Peter started climbing the ladder all by himself...step after step he just kept going. He was motivated to get to the top! He kept climbing and climbing and I just followed slowly after him amazed that he was getting so far. Eventually we made it all the way to the top. Peter and I sat down together and WHEEEEE!!! We FLEW down the slide so fast together! It was so much fun! The minute we got to the bottom Peter took off and just went running to the next bounce house. What a brave kid!


We had to leave the bounce house party early to head to Peter's first dentist appointment. It was nice to get somewhere relatively quiet. They looked in Peter's mouth, said he had great teeth and gave him a new toothbrush. Not much to it, but atleast that's done. What an exciting morning!