Baby Jumping Bean?!?!

The debate has came to a close... We have been debating as to whether or not the purchase of a jumping contraption would be worth getting. After all, the living room is already just one huge romper room for Jacob as anyone that has had a little would understand. We didn't think it was worth purchasing a new one for only a few months. Although this is not the season for garage sales, http://www.craigslist.com/ does work. A few contraptions were already sold, but we did find one that was available used, so we headed to Oxford to get one. We killed two birds with one stone as we jetted over to Babies R Us as well to pick up stuff with our coupons...

Upon our arrival at home, the Rainforest Jump-a-roo was assembled. However, what the heck is this? Why is it about 10 feet tall? Jacob will never be able to touch the ground in this until he graduates from high school and even then it could be questionable. Okay, so that might be a little bit of an exaggeration, but it was extreme nontheless... ;)! After taking an engineering look at this new piece of living room architecture, it was found that there really was an adjustment hidden underneath the bouncy platform. The necessary adjustment was made and was now the right height for our little guy.

Jacob wasn't very sure about his new toy. All of the new monkey and elephant sounds were something quite different from his Exersaucer. The puzzled look on his face quickly turned into smiles from the new sounds. I think the monkey sound is his favorite. Jacob was frozen at first as he felt the tipsy nature of his lack of balance. If he didn't move, he felt safe. It wasn't long before he gave up on being safe and was bouncing around a bit while spinning and checking out the new play things lined around him. Let's hope that he uses it more than a month that the previous owner noted when picking it up!