The last day of 2012! I wish I could say that we were more excited about this New Year’s Eve, but it really is just another day. There is no magical change that will take place overnight. Other than being the end of a tax year, the changing of the numbers on the calendar don’t mean very much in our journey.
Tonight we won’t be going anywhere or seeing anyone or drinking anything fizzy or spirited. When we wake up in the morning, it will be all the same. At least we won’t have hangovers to deal with!

As far as lengths of time go, the year of 2012 was full of changes. Last January 1st, we could not even have dreamt of the journey that was ahead of us. I hope that next December 31st, I can look back in disbelief over the progress that we have made.

We put away our Christmas tree and everything yesterday, the whole holiday season comes to a close but the whole thing was kind of a blur and I can’t believe it is over!

So today, we just went on about our daily rigor. Trevor was all full of spazz this morning. So that Brendan could take his nap, I loaded up Trevor and took him to the park.

He really likes to swing even though the pictures don’t show it!

He was amazed by the floor of this equipment.

I thought he might pull up on these bars, but instead he fell in love with the sand

And yes, he tried to eat it.

He was blown away by the flock of ducks

Brendan stayed at home, but he still had a pretty good day. He took two decent naps today which is a good thing. Of course, he is awake now being a troublemaker. He liked playing puzzles with Daddy this evening.

We made a second adjustment to his doses today, so far no real signs of withdrawal but it is just the beginning.

It looks like cousin-to-be will have a January birthday. We hope that everything goes well with his imminent delivery. Best wishes to all our friends and family. Stay safe tonight!

Some evenings my brain feels mushy and I don’t have any idea what to write. It is nice for things to not be so “eventful” though. We have initiated the weaning process for the Ativan, only time will tell how he is going to handle it. Best case scenario, he will be done in four weeks. I think probably 6 is more reasonable, or it could take longer.

On to pictures!

Brendan says “who needs to walk, I have this chomp and clack thing covered”

CHOMP

and CLACK

When clacking gets old, there is always the ball popper

“Can’t you see I am busy?”

The boys video chatted with Aunt Schnah, The Bearded One and cousin-to-be-rex today. Brendan demonstrated his clapping and standing and was very proud with the extra “yay Brendans”.

They did some online shopping

And they sniped some ebay auctions, it was tense.

Trevor is getting comfy with his one nap a day model, he slept almost 3 hours right after lunch. Brendan can’t figure out his naps, he doesn’t want to sleep!

I can’t believe 2012 is almost over, it doesn’t seem possible!

We were busy today, I didn’t get the camera out much!

Little Trevor luxuriates in his bath for a long time. He loves to be on his tummy and paddle and kick around in the water.

He blows bubbles and eats the water too.

Trevor cuddled with Daddy for a while and watched “The Lorax” .. again. He loves that movie, I love the music in it.

Brendan had a fun day of being super silly. I finally caught his new “trick” on video, he is very proud.

It may seem silly, but clapping is a very important developmental milestone. It also opens the door for him to work on his sign language. He is learning how to sign “puppy” right now because it is easy! We have gone really slow with his PMV valve for speaking because he HATES it. After that first day that he did really well, now he knows how to fight it. The moment we put it on, he just holds his breath and forces pressure against it. After a while, he either blows it off himself or we remove it because he is turning red. Even 30 seconds a day will help eventually. He will learn to make it work for him, right now I think it scares him too much.