Spring!

Spring has finally arrived in Parkville! Over the past week, the pear and red bud trees have started blooming, along with our tulips... And dandelions! (Joseph's favorite )

I am so looking forward to a new season of little kid clothes, and Maddie is beginning to remember she has knees and legs again. When she falls down, she now will bend over, try to kiss her knee or leg and say "all better!" Then she gets up and continues with whatever it was she probably wasn't supposed to be doing in the first place. 

We were really sad to leave our beautiful magnolia trees at the old house, but the flowering trees at the new house aren't too shabby! It has been fun watching everything green up and the plants start blooming. 

And spring also means it's warm enough to pull out all of the old dresses my mom saved from when my sisters and I were little girls. Maddie was pretty pleased with herself this morning in her dress, hair ow and new Easter shoes. So cute!

And on an unrelated but trying to document milestones note, Maddie is officially trying to climb out of her crib. The last two days we have found her dangling from the front, both legs almost touching the ground but she's unwilling to let go. For now. And for the record, Joseph just learned how to do this a few months ago. Awesome. Oh, second kids!