whobody did that?: whobody had a birthday party?

Sunday, March 31, 2013

whobody had a birthday party?

So.... Keaton turned 8...and it turns out we did LOTS of fun things for his birthday,

as I shared about in the last post, we took Keaton and 3 friends to a UNI game.

(That was actually at the beginning of March.)

Keaton's birthday was on a Sunday, so the night before his birthday we decided to surprise the kids with a trip to Jumpin' Janes. We had never been there before, and the kids were so excited to go!

Jumpin' Janes is pretty much a huge shed with a bunch of blow up bouncy houses and obstacle courses. (genius money maker) It was really a great way for the kids to burn off LOTS of extra energy. Things were pretty crazy here....but the kids had a blast.

I never felt like MY kids were unsafe, because they weren't doing unsafe things...but my anxiety was out of control watching OTHER kids who were walking on the edges and climbing where they weren't supposed to be!!! YIKES.

The kids had a b.l.a.s.t.

They really did. Even Cruz loved it.

He didn't really go ON anything, but just walked around in the middle yelling and waving his arms. He just loved being somewhere other than our house....an being able to walk pretty much wherever he wanted to!

It actually worked out great for us...

I was worried that there weren't

enough of "us" (jason and I) to watch "them" (the kids)...

but our system was perfect.

I told the kids that they HAD to stick together and all move from thing to thing as a team....and they actually listened.....so one of the adults followed Cruz while the other one followed the kids. It was actually fun!