roller coaster

Oh, the roller coaster ride of having two toddlers!  After being so pleased with their behavior the other day at our twin playdate, a few nights later I was ready to pull my hair out and it hasn't gotten much better.  :)  After three weeks of doing well in their beds, they are now not doing very well at all.  Last week I even had to call Mike at basketball because I was so frustrated, and even though I didn't ask him to, he was nice enough to leave early and come home.  :)  Just gotta keep telling myself, "This is just a phase, we'll get through this....This is just a phase, we'll get through this..."

Despite bedtime struggles and some extra attitude from Logan lately, we had lots of fun lately.  This unseasonably warm weather has been great.  Both boys love to play outside and get DIRTY.  I have never seen the bath water so dirty...  And, the amount of laundry is just as bad as when they were babies and spitting up all the time.  :)

Friday night we took the boys to open swim at Zeeland Rec.  We had a great time!  It's so interesting to see the differences between Logan and Caleb in the water.  Logan is fine being in a lifejacket and swimming around on his own.  Caleb has to hold on tight.  They did have a floaty thing that Caleb was happy to sit on for awhile and play with cups in the water.  They both enjoyed going down the slide into the pool.  When catching them Mike would let them go underwater just a bit and they both handled it fine, but it seemed to bother Logan less.  Logan flirted with the lifeguard a little bit when she was helping him up the slide.  :)  At this point Logan is more of a water rat, but at least Caleb doesn't put up a fuss about going in the water - he's just not as comfortable with it.

Saturday was a busy day getting things done at home.  We did go to the park for a bit in the morning as well.  One of the big things that got done was the primer in the nursery.  Yay!!!  Since we're going over wallpaper it's an oil-based primer, and my doctor said that I shouldn't do that so Mike had to do it himself.  (My doctor says very few things are off-limits, so when he does, I listen...)  But, I can do the painting myself, so it's all fair.  :)

Saturday night was a little surprise party for my Dad's 65th birthday.  We all managed to pull of the surprise, had a good meal, and then the kids got to run around outside for a while.  (In shorts.  In the middle of March.  Crazy!)  It was perfect for flying a kite, so Mike brought ours over and did that for a while.  Didn't load my pics onto the computer yet...  The boys always have fun playing with their cousins, and Caleb and Jason especially played nice flying the kite.

Yesterday I took the boys to a park and then over to visit Mike at work.  They were out doing field work, planting onions.  After we got home they ate their lunch outside - went okay sitting on a blanket, but I really want to get a kid-sized picnic table!

Today it's supposed to get to 85 degrees.  We need to run a couple errands, and then hit another park!