Bouncing Babies

Dear gawd, the internet has been down at the O'Rear's and many of the Griffin Aficionados have been living in the dark, without a shining ray of Baby G to brighten their day. Just to make y'all smile again, I'm posting some super cute pictures of Grifferino bouncing along at "Bouncing Tigers" a Lindsey's inflatable paradise (for all y'all who remember Lindsey's Birthday Parties in Baton Rouge.) It was a blast and for $3.50, it was a great way to kill an hour and a half. Oh, AND Griffin was so worn out, he slept for 2 1/2 hours. Yee-ha!

Granny Lynn organized the event and a variety of Buttons and Button-related folks were in attendance- notably my cousin Alicia and her adorable little monkey, Asher, who is two years older than Griffin, almost to the date. Asher modeled all kinds of walking, talking and monkey business and G Dawg was enthralled with his mad skillz. In return, Griffin's varied diet and snack of oranges, grapes and lentils inspired Asher to eat some fruit, much to the excitement of his parents. What is it about three year olds and the "Beige" diet?

Although Griffin was too young to go inside the big bouncy toys, there was plenty of wobbly fun for him to have and Jake did an amazing job of tossing him about. I fretted over contrecoup brain injuries, but determined that Griffin was having too much fun to be too mangled. (This Mama watches too much CSI, so she knows all about petechial hemorrhages, contrecoup brain injuries and GSR- gunshot residue and Grissom-Sidle-Romance.) Halfway through my pregnancy I had to start TiVo-ing a wide variety of gruesome murder shows. Kimmie knows what I'm talking about.

Back to the Bounce- There were a lot of older kids there and I enjoyed telling the Big Boys (4-6) to go roughhouse on some other toy and be really careful around the baby. Ever since I started teaching, I LOVE telling other people's kids what to do. "Is headfirst the way we go down the slide? Please use your indoor voices, the baby is sleeping. A spork is not a toy. We need to be quiet little ninjas, or we will make the baby cry." Ooooohhh, I love making children behave! It gives me such a sense of purpose.