Jude's Jumperoo!

We used to be those parents.  You know them.  The ones that say "wood toys are so much better -- children can use their imaginiation."  Then we put a wood toy in front of our son and at the young age of three months, we could see his little baby brain thinking "where does it light up, mom?  I mean, what does it do?"

So in our 1250 square foot townhome, Liz and I are slowly being squeezed out by plastic things with lights and music.  First, we told ourselves that these were things to buy us time.  Like enough time to brush our teeth, fold laundry, or even take a shower.  But then we realized that we were buying them because it is obvious that Jude has an obsession with lights.  I believe that I have mentioned this previously.  So we, as good parents should, feed his addiction with more toys with more lights. 

The latest addition to our own private Main Street Electrical Parade is Jude's jumperoo.  Like the good over-processors that we are, we did hours of research.  We posted on facebook.  We look at amazon.  We asked our friends.  And we ended up with the Fisher Price Rainforest Jumperoo.  We love that the jumperoo lights up (of course, and folds up small, which was also really important to us.  Now by small, I mean that it folds up so that we don't need to constantly keep it in the center of our living room.  But I don't mean that it is unnoticable in our living room.  It is a big hunk of brightly colored plastic with cartoon animals for God's sake!

Here's a video of Jude's first time in the contraption (yes, I used the word contraption).