When Gramma is here, we end up with far too many cute pictures at the end of the day. It is hard to choose the ones to use!
The boys both had a pretty good day. Brendan is handling his withdrawal and feeling a bit better. He was such a trooper today handling a few “costume changes” while we did a photo shoot all afternoon.

He was putting real concentration in to his shape sorter this morning.

Brendan’s very first pair of jeans!

“Happy now, Mom? I am even wearing shoes!”

“Do you need a little song and dance number too while we are at it?”

“You people exhaust me!”

After the photo shoot, Brendan was all sweaty and tired and needed his bath. Trevor had to go outside to be occupied so he stayed out of the bathwater.

He really enjoys the dogs playing outside

“Get back out there in the yard and play!!”

Brendan loves when he gets a chance to do things that he sees Trevor do.

The first batch of pictures from the photo shoot today are Brendan with his Beads of Courage. He was upset when we tried to put the beads on him, but he is just so cooperative and smiley anyway. He is a real photogenic little guy!

Laundry, laundry, laundry every day

Now Brendan is wearing clothes more often so it is even more laundry

He works on his PT skills while being with Trevor in playland

There goes Trevor…

Brendan worked on tummy time skills while still playing with Trevor

This stuff is hard work!

It was a pretty uneventful day, just chasing around dramatic little babies and keeping them both entertained. Brendan had a decent day. He didn’t sprint at all but his withdrawal symptoms were better. The boys just did a lot of playing today.

Trevor had a turkey and cheese sandwich with mayo on wheat bread today for lunch. He liked it!

Brendan already knows that if he wakes up and thrashes around just a little, Gramma will pick him up and he can finish his nap being cuddled.

Play time

I got Brendan’s Beads of Courage completely updated today. I have them all strung in the order that he got them by following his daily logs so it takes some time to string them up right.
I have absolutely no idea how many there actually are, but when I laid them out down the hallway, they went 54.5 feet. Maybe that makes a couple thousand?

Here is the side of his Daily Log that shows what each type and color means on the string. He has 182 yellow ones for each day in the hospital, he has hundreds of pink ones for each day on the ventilator. He has at least one of everything from the top section!