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The StoryToddlers

It took me 13 years to get a trampoline, this kid gets one in 2.

by Jill May 3, 2010
May 3, 2010

Well, it’s official. I have a two year old. We celebrated Kendall’s birthday in grand fashion this weekend, including a bounce party and a house full of family. It ended in 1/3 of my tiny backyard being taken over by the most grossly humongous trampoline you’ve ever seen. Let’s just say I started out wanting a “toddler” trampoline like this one-

A manageable 7 feet

But ended up with something like this once my 32 going on 12 husband had his way.

It's FIFTEEN feet!

All I can say is how the hell did I ever survive growing up with the death trap that was our trampoline? Net enclosures were nonexistent and we couldn’t even get that spring cover pad to stay on.  It was just a bouncy, rusty, circle of death, especially when we would throw the sprinkler underneath, load 6 kids on top in bathing suits and squirt Dawn dish soap all over it. How did I survive the CIRCLE OF DEATH?

Moving on… I will do a full birthday party post tomorrow, complete with pictures from the party in which 99% Kendall has his finger crammed up his nose. He is so *that* kid right now. And I don’t even fight with him about it anymore because anytime I tell him to not do something that’s “gross” or “icky” he thinks it’s that much cooler and just does it more, shoves his finger up there farther, digs things out for me, shows them to me while laughing and cackling “gross!” over and over.

I was looking through his pictures on my computer tonight because that’s where they all live… on my computer… not in a proper album like they should, like I promised I would make by the time he turned 2. Anyway, I figured I’d share some of them that I’m fairly certain I’ve never posted on here before because this is my “mommy blog” and I thought for once I’d try to act like a real “mommy blogger” and ooh and ahh over my sweet boy and how big he’s become.

Let Oohing and Aahing commence.

It took me 13 years to get a trampoline, this kid gets one in 2.It took me 13 years to get a trampoline, this kid gets one in 2.It took me 13 years to get a trampoline, this kid gets one in 2.It took me 13 years to get a trampoline, this kid gets one in 2.It took me 13 years to get a trampoline, this kid gets one in 2.

Kendall is 2 years old, and has officially started repeating everything I say. Tonight it was, “butt,” as in, “come here and let me wipe your butt, there’s still poop on it!”


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27 comments

L May 3, 2010 - 11:36 pm

Ok, so you are pretty much gorgeous. That picture on your sidebar does not do you justice!

Oh, and of course you son is adorable!

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Jill May 3, 2010 - 11:37 pm

Gosh, thanks!

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Lauren May 3, 2010 - 11:39 pm

Happy Birthday, K!! I hope that he enjoyed his party and that trampoline is fucking huge! We had one growing up and it had a pad but it moved if you fell on it so you’d end up getting pinched anyway.

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Megan May 3, 2010 - 11:50 pm

glad to know Im not the only one who managed to survive the “circle of death” complete with sprinklers and WAY too many kids on it!

Happy Birthday Kendall!

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Myndee May 4, 2010 - 12:01 am

Yes, suprisingly we survived the circle of death as well…guess that means we don’t need the net enclosure, right? 😉

My photos live in albums now, thanks to hotprints.com. If you sign up with them, you get 12 free photobooks- one per month for a year. They aren’t the best, but at least I can show people without them having to sit in my office. 🙂

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Jill May 4, 2010 - 12:07 am

Ooh, good to know!

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Myndee May 4, 2010 - 12:02 am

Whoops…Happy Birthday to Kendall!!

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Upstatemomof3 May 4, 2010 - 12:06 am

Oh how sweet!! But the fact that he is officially two sort of makes me want to cry. My (middle) baby will be two in August and I cannot believe it is that time already. Where did two years go? How did it happen so fast? And it does seem SOOOOO fast (okay, well except that not going on a date in that amount of time – that seems LONG!!!!). 🙂

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Jill May 4, 2010 - 12:08 am

Seriously. After having a kid you step into a time warp. That’s the only way I can describe it.

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TheFeministBreeder May 4, 2010 - 12:08 am

Ah! We have the same Exersaucer!

Dude, like, 10 minutes ago Jonas was turning two. Now Julesy is turning two, and I just do NOT understand how that happened???? It seems like someone’s Punk’ing me.

Though, Jonas seemed sooo much older at two than Julesy does, even though Julesy is talking 100 times more at this age than Jonas was. I think the baby just always seems like the baby. As soon as you have another kid, the older one ages by years overnight.

Happy Birthday Kendall! You gotta meet your birth-month-partner, blogger kid, Julesy sometime!

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Jill May 4, 2010 - 12:21 am

Yes, they must! It’s crazy that they are so close in age. Happy 2nd year to Julesy, too.

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Mandy May 4, 2010 - 1:04 am

happy big TWO to Kendall! NO FAIR i want a circle of death! i never got one :[ had to go attempt to fling myself off of other peoples death traps.

those pics of him make my parts twinge for number 2.

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Mandy May 4, 2010 - 1:05 am

ok, that sounds like i have to take a shit.

no, it makes my ovaries twinge for a second baby. that’s better.

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Amanda May 4, 2010 - 8:11 am

Gah, I remember that exersaucer photo! The little baby leg chunk is unmatched. Love it!

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Kim May 4, 2010 - 8:23 am

Happy 2nd Kendall! What a cutie, and how much fun will he (and dad) have on that trampoline? Those pix of him are super cute, and do make even my over used ovaries ache 🙂

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Miranda May 4, 2010 - 8:37 am

I remember frantically stalking BOTB for updates on whether BabyDonkey was here yet. I can’t believe it’s already been two years!

Where DOES the time go!?

Happy Birthday, Kendall!

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Jess May 4, 2010 - 10:32 am

Yall are the cutest little family! Happy Birthday Kendall!

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Lizzyjames May 4, 2010 - 12:34 pm

I just can’t believe it. Such a cutie. Happy Birthday Kendall!! I bet he loves his trampoline.

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Victoria May 4, 2010 - 2:42 pm

I just have a small blog, but I wanted to honor you as part of my celebratory mommy bloggers 🙂

http://ourlifewithjake.blogspot.com/2010/05/honoring-moms.html

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Erin May 4, 2010 - 7:01 pm

“Circle of Death” sounds pretty accurate for the trampoline I used to jump on, too. I loved looking at the photos. My little guy is 6 months, and I feel like it has been about 5 minutes.

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Megan May 4, 2010 - 8:47 pm

That thing is awesome!! We need one for our backyard! Happy Birthday, little guy!! Two is a big year! Way to go, mama!

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adriana moniz May 4, 2010 - 9:40 pm

these pics are so cute…my lil man is 6 months and it feels like its only been a minute. I cant imagine him being two but i know its gonna go by so fast. *sigh* cant we keep them little forever?

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A bounce house 2nd birthday | Baby Rabies May 5, 2010 - 1:47 am

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mae May 5, 2010 - 8:55 am

Thanks for the photo montage, it’s fun to see how much he’s grown. Mind boggling how much they change and how fast it goes.

Trampolines still scare the crap out of me. I was convinced that I Was going to be “that kid” who fell on the rusted pointy exposed cables and decapitated herself. That said, I would totally let P bounce in one of those new ones, they look safer than her crib!

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Laurel May 14, 2010 - 3:02 pm

I was *just* thinking about picking one of these up. But didn’t. But now I might. Damn…there goes another couple hundred bucks!

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Serenity Kimball May 26, 2010 - 12:27 am

Hey, do you happen to remember the name/brand of the toddler trampoline in your first picture? I’m trying to figure it out so I can promote it on my site–baby trampoline I’m not sure if its an older style or not but I can’t seem to find it anywhere and it seems like one of the best.

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Sara February 20, 2011 - 2:41 am

Great pictures! Ha ha, that’s really funny about how it suddenly changed from a plan to buy a toddler trampoline to a ginormous one that’s taking over your yard – funny how those things happen once the hubbies get involved in the decision-making process!

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