Bounce into Spring!

Okay so Friday night we decided that we were all going to attend a bouncer event at the Collicutt Centre!

A giant soccer pitch full of inflatable bouncers, children of all 

ages (most of whom were super pumped) and some line ups.

We were armed with an arrival plan, a helper and a plan B (just in case our sweet girl couldn't cope).

This was either going to be the best night ever or one giant hot mess.

Looking at that picture I am SUPER proud of her (and us)!

Let's start at the beginning, it was not perfect, not by a long shot.  There were lots of stares - oh the stares!

She was terrified, because it was new, and different.  I had to physically walk her in - not a big deal.  She struggles until we found a bouncer that had NO ONE in it, and then she was fine.  She was more than fine, she was pretty much the Queen of bouncing into spring :)

 Sometimes I wish I could press a pause button on my sweet girl and address the people around her when she is having a "moment" (meltdown).  

Last night had such a button been made available to me, I would have turned to the group of men and women staring and said "I realize that this is not typical behavior but I am going to go out on a limb and assume that all of you have children because this is a family event, my girl is having a hard time right now - staring doesn't help her, move along" 

But WHO CARES about THEM!

Matea nailed it!  She made it one hour and fifteen minutes (our goal was getting in the door)!

love her.

  We still need to work a little bit on our turn taking...lineups were NOT her friend.

That's why in the following pictures you don't see Matea, because she refused to wait in line, her brother was AWESOME at waiting in line though, and two or three years ago he would have struggled too, 

so I have hope :)

 This one was her fave!

And her brothers too!

They even had a few"baby bouncers" for sweet Baby Asher

It was a "win"....and we are so thankful for those :)

There are more and more every day!