My Beautiful Life with Ryleigh and Reagan: The Magic of the Jumperoo

I don't know how I would possibly make it through the day right now, with 2 seven month old babies, if it weren't for the miracle of the Jumperoo. This has been Ryleigh's favorite toy, by far, since we first put her in it at 4 months old, when we noticed she wanted to jump on her legs whenever we held her up in our lap. The girls loves. to. jump. I swear, she would stay in the thing all day long if we let her. It took Reagan a little while longer to fall in love with the jumperoo, but it's now her favorite toy as well. It's one of the only things that will calm them when they are fussy. I call it magic. They jump and jump and jump....and then finally I will notice it got very quiet, and I look up and they are both passed out.

It's funny watching them, because jumping is just one more thing they do so differently. Ryleigh goes for height. She gets excited and she jumps as high and as fast as she can. Sometimes she gets going so good that I think she is going to pop the springs. I call Reagan twinkle toes when she is jumping, because she very delicately bounces, using only her tippy-toes. It's so cute watching them. I see it every single day, and it still amuses me.

We started out with only 1 jumper, and for a while that was fine, especially when Ryleigh was more into it than Reagan. But we finally broke down and bought another one used, because they both wanted to jump...and whichever one didn't get the jumper was mad!

Ryleigh does this adorable thing in the jumper, where she will fall asleep...and then wake back up and start jumping again like she was never asleep. Even funnier, sometimes she sleep-jumps. She will get spooked when she falls asleep and start jumping with her eyes still closed. It's so funny!

Here is a video I took of Ryleigh sleep-jumping. The loud banging is me snapping...and then hitting the floor to wake her up. Mean? Maybe. It's so funny though!