Pump It Up!

Rachel getting ready to go in one of the bouncers.

 Last night I took the kids to Pump It Up for a friend's birthday party. I figured I could handle all four of them on my own while Nathan went to Shooters World to test out his new rifle scope. Once we were let into the first bounce room Hailey and Kade ran off with their friends (I hardly saw them the rest of the night) and Rachel went inside the basketball court bouncer that is like a big trampoline.

Matthew? Well, that's another story. He cried and told me he didn't want to be there. He just wanted to sit down and do nothing. After a lot of convincing on my part he reluctantly went inside the basketball court bouncer with Rachel--and loved it! I think he would have stayed there the rest of the night, but after 20 minutes I was kinda bored. So, after a lot of convincing on my part he reluctantly went down the slide. He never went back in the basketball court. I couldn't have kept him off the slide if I'd wanted to.

Matthew getting ready to go up the ladder for the slide.

After some time in the first bounce room they herded our group into a second room with more bouncers. The kids were in heaven. About the time we got in the second room I went to get something out of the diaper bag and noticed I had a missed call. I checked and saw that it was Nathan. About 2 seconds later I looked up and Nathan was walking in the door. Apparently, the wait for a shooting lane was too long so he decided to come to the party. He went down the slide with the kids a few times and they all had a great time.

At one point, I wasn't sure my kids were going to do anything but play the video games.

Then we were moved to another room for pizza and cake. The kids got balloons and goody bags and loved every minute of the whole night (I'm pretty sure the adults had a great time, as well.)