Week 52?!?! When did we get here? Birthday in 9 days? Impossible!!
Gramma, Erin, and Caleb in 3 days!! Can’t wait for the madness!

In all, it was kind of a tough day. I am glad we had nurses these last couple days to help Brendan cope with his withdrawal symptoms. It just isn’t fair to see him pay the price now for the “relief” back then. We have months of this yet to do.
Brendan’s symptoms are bad enough that we are going to hold steady for a while now and let him adjust before we continue to reduce the dose. It isn’t right to suffer like this for your first birthday party.

Hopefully the worst is over for now, and he can feel better to meet his aunt and cousin for the first time.

It was early, but the boys got to open up a birthday gift that came in the mail today. These adorable little animal backpacks are from Great-Grandma Bobbie. Trevor’s will probably get used a lot with the tail to keep him from running away in Walmart. Brendan will probably use his to carry medical stuff when he learns to crawl and walk. They both got a chance to look at both of them and pick their favorite. Trevor picked the monkey and Brendan picked the lion, so there was no coin toss required!

Trevor was dressed today, really he was. But his drool was overwhelming so it was easier to keep him dry this way. He thought he would “rotate the tire” on his stroller.

Brendan tried to play in the jungle but it was hard to get in to it today.

He lost his favorite alligator pieces off the side and couldn’t get them back

Little brother to the rescue!

Trevor really did help put the pieces back up in place

Yay! Brendan is so thrilled that Trevor is starting to play with him

Brendan is not so thrilled about Trevor wanting to suction his mouth

Brendan goes to bed earlier than Trevor, so we have to go play in Trevor’s bedroom to wear him out before his bedtime. I found this little wind up toy in a drawer and it was the highlight of his night.

Bill brought home some old reels of Super 8 film from his dad’s house and set up the Instamatic tonight. We watched a couple of short home movie clips from 1970-1971. It is pretty amazing how times have changed. The difference between the handful of films and photos of Bill growing up and the thousands of pictures and almost 100 videos of the boys in the first year.
We had a good time with the blast from the past and seeing little Bill running around was so cute!