June 26, 2011

I learned an important lesson this morning - that I am either too old or too out of shape (or, most likely, both) to be jumping like a kid at BounceTown. Man, I used some sort of muscles in my arms that clearly had not been used in some time (the out of shape portion of the equation), and my knees and neck ache (the too old portion of the equation). But I'll recover, and we had so much fun! All the cousins plus 2 friends and a sibling from Morgan's class joined us for an early birthday bounce party at BounceTown yesterday. An hour of bouncing (and a bounce obstacle course, which I have to believe is where the arm muscle using got me) followed by pizza and hostess cupcakes. It was even more fun than it sounds!

Then today was Jesse-Mommy day, which involves (like it did for Jocelyn back in February) a trip to the movies and a shopping spree at Target. We went to the 9:30am showing of Cars 2, which may or may not have been a good movie. I really couldn't say because we made it through all the previews but then proceeded to take 3 trips to the bathroom and miss some apparently critical points in the plot. At the 4th bathroom request I offered that we could just leave and Jesse jumped at the chance. I guess he just wasn't ready for a full feature, though he's also not used to having to watch TWENTY MINUTES of previews - geez!

So we headed to Target. Shopping list: socks for Josh, underwear for Timothy, and a toy and bike helmet for Jesse (his skateboard arrived this week!). We managed to add a few more impulse buys of course, including tech-decks and holders for each of Jocelyn, Timothy, and Jesse. Jesse had picked blue for himself, orange for Jocelyn, and green for Timothy. When we got home Jocelyn wanted blue and Timothy wanted green. So Jesse happily obliged and kept orange for himself. My sweetie pie!

He and Jocelyn took turns with the skateboard and bike for a while (don't worry, we got Jocelyn a helmet too), and then they played tech-decks with Timothy for a bit. Now Jesse just came to have his helmet buckled and he's off to play skateboard again. I think we have scored a successful Jesse-Mommy day :)