a breezy sunday « didionville

literally and figuratively. it was supposed to rain. it looks like it might. it hasn’t.

if we had known it was going to be dry, we would have worked on replacing our rotting porch steps.

instead we packed up the kid for a trip to babies-r-us to check out jumpers. didion loves to jump and bounce on our laps. he loves to be swung around and carried on our shoulders. he’s pretty fearless when it comes to physical activity. when we start jiggling him, etc., he can’t get enough of it and can keep going for 20 minutes or more. at 18 pounds and with demands for increasingly daring moves, didion can wear steven and me out pretty quickly.

so we thought we could get a jumper that hangs from an interior doorway … something like this that retails for $20 … the price is right and the promise of fun times is encouraging … they hang from the trim at the top of a standard doorframe, but, of course, the woodwork in our house is old and “old” means “nonstandard” … ergo, no doorway jumper for us.

then there are the jumperoos that sit on the floor, promising equally fun times for — of course — four times the price … this one IS really cute, but sheesh: $70!?!?!

there was a floor model available, so when no one was looking, we shoved the kid in and watched for an indication that didion would suffer grave emotional injury if we did not buy THAT jumperoo at THAT moment. lucky for our bank account and our collective engineering skills, didion was not seduced by the toy. so we left the store empty handed and with the realization that one of the likely reasons didion loves being bounced and jiggled and swung around is that his mommy and daddy are the sources of the activity and movement.

jumping might be fun for a little while in the jumperoo, but it wouldn’t be the same.

back at home …

steven and didion had lunch …