Monday: Bounce Birthday Party

Today we had a birthday party at a bounce house!  It was a really nice set-up...significantly better than I was expecting.

To start with, the three birthday kids got light-up stickers.

Then there were two rooms of inflatables, and we did one at a time.  (This caused a bit of initial disappointment in the adults since there were only three items in the first room, but it ended up working so well!)  A lot of pictures were taken, but I only have access to some right now, so that's all you get to see.

The second room had an interesting climbing structure, with layers of straps in a spiderweb pattern.  We've never seen anything like it, so everyone gravitated to it right away.  However, the straps were super stretchy, and so it was actually a really hard climb.  Heather and I made it first (because we're tallest) and Isaac made it up shortly afterwards.  I think one more person made it up, but most gave up.  I think that was a good plan, because getting down was harder than getting up.  It was easy to fall though layers with one part of your body and still be connected two layers up.

Then the birthday party!  Joshua got to sit on a throne, which I didn't get a good picture of, have a special entrance while we pounded on the tables, and then we all had pizza and cupcakes.

After an afternoon rest there were more pool shenanigans.

We ended the night with Luca.  Well, I should say the kids ended the night with Luca.  The adults stayed up a bit longer and played a game, but everyone was rather tired.  There is a small movie theater on the third floor of the house, and it is hilarious to watch the kids try to put the feet of the chairs down.