Jumping before Thunder

                    There's nothing like watching the kids jump on the trampoline.  I have heard (from my pediatrician) and read (in Readers Digest) that trampolines cause many many accidents every year.

                     Fortunately we have been very lucky aside from the girls wrapping baby Ethan in a blanket, putting him in a laundry basket in the middle of the trampoline and jumping wildly around him.  Or all the times the kids climb to the top of the swingset and jump from way up high down to the trampoline.   I am sure there are other close calls that luckily we've all survived and my brain is too frazzled to remember the most brilliant acts of bravery.

We got our first trampoline within a few months of moving into our home.  The kids literally wore it out so trampoline #2 was bought about 3years later.

jumping in the rain with thunder soon to come  Sept. 30 2010

Trampoline #2 came with a Net.  I didn't think it made our trampoline necessarily safer because all the children wanted to do was slam into it as hard as they could and see how high they could climb up it.  It was shredded to pieces within a year, as was the padding that surrounds the trampoline.  

I never minded the use & abuse our trampoline received though because it meant I could cook dinner in peace.