Spring Things

Here are some recent spring happenings for our family...

St. Patrick's Day Parade

Okay, it wasn't technically spring yet for this parade, but it was close. The weather was beautiful on this weekend before St. Patty's Day. In Montana, when the winter coats can stay in the closet, we call it spring! :) Our whole family walked in the parade with our Mothers of Multiples group to advertise our spring garage sale. Both boys wore green (underneath the jackets at least). This is the only time all year we ever put Cody in green!

Here is a better view of our decorated wagon. This year, the boys helped me with the shamrock stickers.

Our group probably had 9 or 10 families walk in the parade. The older kids rode bikes, while the younger ones (most of us) used strollers or wagons.

Daddy wore his Shamrock Shake shirt and a stylin' hat. :)

Our family post-parade:

Spring Car Washing

It's finally warm enough to wash the cars outdoors again, so I enlisted Jaden and Cody's help for the task. They stayed busy for probably a whole 45 seconds, so I was lucky to get these couple of pictures!

Recently, my sister-in-law Sarah posted an Instagram pic of my brother Andrew and niece Abby washing their car in Phoenix. Her picture looks a lot more natural with Andrew wearing shorts and Abby looking very summer-like, too. :) Our Montana spring car washes include a few more layers!

The Big Transition

We finally took the plunge a couple weeks ago and moved Jaden and Cody into toddler beds. We tried to drag our feet on this transition for quite a while, but the cribs were becoming more like pieces of gymnastic equipment in our household. So, the decision was clear. The cribs had to go. Cody and Jaden have really loved their new beds, and we've been pleasantly surprised at how well the boys stay in them at nighttime. Hooray! Unfortunately, the beds don't necessarily help them sleep better (they still call out to us 3-4 times at night for a drink, going potty, help with tangled blankets, etc....), but they still wait until nearly 7:00 to climb out of bed in the morning so we can't complain too much!

The beds were given to us as hand-me-downs from a church family. We didn't realize until picking up the beds from their home that one bed was bright pink with stickers of Dora the Explorer! I had planned on painting this bed a different color before we transitioned, but Jaden saw the bed and immediately fell in love with the pink. Part of me feels a bit guilty that one of my sons has a masculine red Lightning McQueen bed and the other has one that isn't quite so masculine (what kind of issues might I be creating in the future??). But, hey, free is free, and if Jaden is pleased (for now, at least), then so are we! :)