The new toy...

This past month we got a trampoline...yes, yes, I know they are very dangerous...BUT I grew up with one (WITHOUT A NET) and some of my best memories in our neighborhood are on that old yellow rectangle trampoline. The boys and I and Jonas, too, have had the best laughs since this trampoline arrived. All the neighbor kids can come over and jump for a LONG time, just like I did with my buds as a kid. The only thing that would make it more authentic would be if they had a jam box (tapes and all) playing with songs like "What's Love Got to Do With It?," MC Hammer, Wilson Phillips, the Pointer Sisters, and other good stuff from the 70s and 80s.

We have made up about 10,000 games to play on the trampoline...here are a sampling:

1. Rolling log--where Jonas rolls around and the kids jump over him...
2. Sock bomb--where I try to throw dirty sock bombs at them and hit them..
3. Dodge ball--we keep a large orange ball on it...
4. soccer--where we go one direction around the perimeter and try to steal it and kick it the other way.
5. some old favs like duck, duck goose-CAy's favorite!
6. Ring around the rosie
7. Popcorn--of course..
8. Pop goes the weasel...
9. who can jump the highest?
10. chase...tag...
and then of course we just jump till we are exhausted!

Other pics here: Cay loves to be funny and put his pants on his head while he does his business...

My favorite tree--the weeping cherry! So sweeeeeet!