Bouncy Place

On Tuesday Amina and I met up with our playgroup friends at the Bouncy Place in Kent.  It was so much fun! They had a room full of inflatable toys and we went for the drop in toddler time session, so there weren’t any big kids to have to watch out for.  Amina loved jumping and bouncing on the toys.  And of course she wanted to climb up and slide down the big slides, but she couldn’t quite climb up all by herself so I ended up carrying her up – boy that was quite the work out!  My friend Stacie said she’d have a great memory of us '”inching our way up the Mt. Everest of blow up slides” for some time.  ;) Amina was worn out after about a half hour but we stayed the full hour and she kept playing… just not jumping quite as much after that first little bit.  And she even said “Mama carry you” a few times!  That never happens – it’s usually “Amina walk” when we’re out and about.  We had such a great time doing this I’m sure we’ll be back!  The only bummer is that I left my camera in the car, so I wasn’t able to get pictures.  My friend took a few pictures so I will post those once she gets them to me!  Afterwards we went out to lunch at Panera.  Amina sat nicely the whole time! I guess wearing the kids out first was a great idea!   We had a huge table as there were 7 moms with 7 toddlers and 2 babies – we used up all the highchairs in the place!  At least we were there for an early lunch so we were able to find enough seats.   What a fun time!  Amina is really noticing and talking about her friends a lot now.  We like to look at pictures and she will name everyone in the pictures.  And after playing with friends she talks about them for days afterwards.   Amina also loves to give her friends big smothering hugs! They don’t always appreciate it, but it’s usually pretty cute :)