The inflatable bounce house is the children's favorite toy, but the family's $1,800 mortgage payment is coming.
With ushers on skates and dogs in tuxedos, the children had to fight off the grown-ups for a turn in the inflatable bounce house.
"The cash helps a lot," Constantino Gonzalez, Ms. Duarte's neighbor, said of the family's second sale in two weeks, in which he and his wife, Julia, were reluctantly selling their children's inflatable bounce house for $650, with pump.
A lawsuit filed Wednesday by Mr. Brown's office claims that some of the inflatable bounce houses that help entertain — and exhaust — the young guests at children's parties have unsafe levels of lead, sometimes dozens of times the federal limit.
There will be ice cream, and games, and country-western music, and inflatable bouncy houses, and fellow Missourian Rush Limbaugh, who will seize the moment to promote an iced tea drink flavored with Tea Party fervor.
If we want our state to be riddled with the homogenized, sheetrocked, "inflatable" tract housing that has littered the natural landscape across the lower 48 in recent days, then we should continue on our current path to visual hell.
It surveys 20th-century design for children at multiple scales, from kindergartens to highchairs, Unicef's School-in-a-Box to Barbie's Dream House, inflatable animals to Montessori manipulatives.
Now they're working on an inflatable factory to house inflatables.
The park was filled with towering inflatable totems, bounce houses and celestial creatures that invoked playful interaction for the young and old alike.
