The last few times we have gone, I have accompanied Alex into all the bouncy castles; This is one great feature of the venue. Generally Alex is very timid around large groups of other children, even those his own age.
I began to get worried that he is not being social. So today I started out playing with him in each bouncey castle. But at a certain point I stepped back and sat down in a nearby chair between two of the inflatable rooms.
Alex ran over to me and snuggled between my legs. He clearly wanted me to come with him. I told him that I would sit right here and wait for him if he wanted to go over to one of the bouncey castles. At first he resisted, but eventually his sense of adventure and the promise of jumping up and down frenetically got the better of him.
He ran over to the entrance and climbed halfway up, then climbed down and ran back to me. I was right there waiting for him.
Then he ran back over and climbed in all the way. I waited for a 3-mississippi count, and he climbed back down and ran back over to me. Very cool!
Then he ran over, climbed in, and started to bounce. Hooray!
He still got a little shy when another boy climbed in, but he stayed in for a few seconds past that.
Then I thought we'd have some real fun, and I managed to coax him to climb up the big slide and slide down on his own too!
The next thing you know, he'll be driving. :-)
3 comments:
We almost went to Bounce! yesterday. Instead we went for a walk in the rain which Caleb enjoyed in spite of (or perhaps because of ?) all the wind.
It was good to see you on Saturday.
Phew! The whole setup looks a little scary to me too! Whoooa, that's a mighty big slide! Don't think I'd be doing much jumping around, especially after a few beers!!!!
I can't believe Alex went on the biiiig slide by himself... rock on! I love that slide!
Good luck on finals to Dana (but someone as intelligent and studious as Dana doesn't need luck)!
Love,
Aunto
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