Jump Street

We took Luke and a few friends to Jump Street yesterday for his belated party with his friends. For those of you who don't know about it, it's an indoor trampoline park with wall to wall trampolines. I was a little worried how Jake would do and didn't know if they would let him jump with his leg brace but didn't want to exclude him from going. The boys have always been part of each others birthday parties. They told us when we got there that they were fine with it if we were.

In retrospect, he has been jumping on our trampoline all summer, so I don't know what I was worried about. As soon as we got there, they all took off jumping on the long runway type trampolines and Jake did fine. Next thing I know, they are playing dodgeball which to be honest, made me a little nervous. Jumping is one thing, but avoiding being hit by a ball (or other kids) while jumping and then throwing a ball back at the other team is a different story. As usual, I should have given him more credit, he did great. Todd was also playing with the boys off and on, but really let Jake do his own thing and didn't hover like I probably would have. I kept trying to get Jake to come out and rest, but would get a head shake saying "no." It was actually pretty cool to watch him hold his own and see how much fun he was having. He even did a pretty good job avoiding being hit with the ball with the exception of one early on to the face. Luckily the balls were pretty soft. :-)

He was super exhausted when we got home and ended up sleeping twelve hours last night. All in all a good day.