The Family That Bounces Together...

Saturday, February 4, was one of those strange weather days where it looks like its going to rain, but doesn't until you try to walk out the door to go do something. We were itching to get out of the house, so we decided to play it safe and go to an indoor bounce house playground called Little Javas in Weston. This place had some seriously big bounce houses, and from past experiences with similar places, I was a little nervous that Brianne wouldn't be able to fully enjoy it.

But Brianne was ready to climb inflatable mountains, and ran right up to the first big slide. Even though there were bigger kids jumping all over the place, she still had a blast scaling each bounce area.

Here is Brianne coming down the big slide. She climbed right up the middle stair case and jumped right down like a big girl!


All smiles and slides! This slide was her favorite. She must have climbed it at least 20 times.


Even though there were tons of awesome bounce houses, Brianne wanted to make a pit stop in the ball pit. This little boy kept taking all the balls and stuffing them down his shirt. Brianne did not like this one bit and felt the need to report him.

Building a fort in the tree tunnel.

We got a surprise visit from Daddy! Marty was walking door to door all day, but wrapped up a little early to come bounce with us. And lucky for me he showed up when he did. Brianne wanted to tackle the mother of all bounce houses. This was more of a bounce fort, with things to climb over, climb under, and then up really high to fly down a big slide. Combined with 30 other 4 - 6 year olds running through, it would have been too dangerous for Brianne to do by herself. But she had no fear with Daddy around. Marty was a champ and ran the bounce fort with Brianne at least 10 times in a row. No need to go to the gym - Marty was exhausted afterwards.

Exploring another bounce fort. Brianne had no fear!

After about 3 hours of bouncing, mommy and daddy decided we'd had enough. Unfortunately, Brianne was still not ready, and had to be dragged out. But we soothed the fury with the promise of ice cream. So we made a family trip to Dairy Queen.

Brianne wanted her own strawberry ice cream. The below was a kids size, believe it or not. She ate about half, and I managed to sneak the rest away and toss it out. It was a great day of bounce houses and ice cream, and we can't wait to do it again!