Stupid Mondays!!! It was one of those days where I was ready for it to be over at 10am. I am so tired.
It started out this morning at 3:30am when the water sensor “Leak Frogs” under our kitchen sink starting alarming. Our RO filter system cracked in one of filter canisters and it was spraying a fine stream of water. Bill got up and took care of it all.
Then Trevor got up at 6:00am in a rage. He would not go back to sleep but Brendan was still sleeping so I didn’t want to take him out to the living room. He sat in bed with me and watched Bambi quietly on TV for a while until his normal breakfast time.

There must be a secret tooth calendar somewhere I don’t know about. Both Brendan and Trevor are cutting two molars at the same time and they are making it well known that it doesn’t feel good. Brendan has been a fountain of drool and he keeps shoving his fingers in his mouth to rub the sore gums but he ends up gagging himself and throwing up big globs of drool.
Trevor was just a whining crabby mess today! I could not keep him happy. Their high anxiety day just wore me out so fast.

I tried to settle them with Yo Gabba Gabba but it only worked for a short time.

Brendan claims the big box, Trevor gets the drawer.

I am working with Trevor to practice using utensils to self feed. He is pretty good at scooping with a spoon, although he likes to just pick up the puree with his hand and shove it in his mouth!

He like to stab his bites of bagel and cream cheese. He is better at getting that in his mouth.

He prefers the fast way of eating with hands! Forks and purees don’t really work.

Brendan played in the jungle while Trevor ate lunch. He did eat 5-6 bites of green beans again today!

Trevor was just so cranky that I decided to take him around the block. It gave him an outing and Brendan a little peace. It was a little cold though so I had to wrap him up!

I am super sleepy now, Brendan is wide awake and Trevor went to bed. Hopefully he sleeps in tomorrow!

There were no extraordinary leaps in development today to talk about, so I will get straight to some cute pictures.

Brendan starts with eating green beans and moves straight to eating planets!

“Not the whole planet, Mom! Just a continent!”

We dug out some old pacifiers to see if we could find the right one for Brendan (he didn’t like any of them while awake). Trevor wanted to show Kieran how to use a soothie “Li’l T Style”

If you don’t know what a soothie is, it is a green soft pacifier for newborns. He has the whole thing in his mouth.

Daddy making fun of Trevor!

Trevor decided to try multitasking (drinking and walking)

Somebody cut that baby off, he has had enough to drink!

I can’t wait for his walking to get more solid so I can take him outside more and wear him out. Right now, he loves to be out of the house, but he just wants to eat every pebble and leaf and twig, and he is fascinated by every little hole in the sidewalk.

It was a beautiful spring-like day a bit this afternoon, but it rained most of the day otherwise. We had to play inside. The boys got to try out their new iPad that Daddy got for them with his reward points from work. Now they are certainly the most spoiled-est babies on the block. The iPad has a rubbery case called an iGuy with arms that are like handles for them.

They didn’t think much of Angry Birds!

Brendan loves this Fisher Price app.

As I was downloading the “Trevor Cam” videos from outside, we found some very old videos of a cute chubby little Trevor. The modern Trevor has his finger on the ‘delete’ key, trying to get rid of evidence that he was a little crab!

I don’t think I ever used this one on the blog, so here is a little flashback to sometime around last April!

We had a full day today, but it was all good. We are both low on sleep but Brendan had a good night. He slept almost 12 hours total (with frequent restless movements, needing help turning, needing to be patted). But he slept!

I had a chance to do some non-baby things today while Bill took care of both boys. I didn’t do a good job detaching from everything and made a mess of some projects because I was trying to work too quickly, but it was still a nice break. The boys liked Daddy time.

They played with the ball popper for a while.

They watched Yo Gabba Gabba, although I think Trevor was secretly planning his next naughty adventure.

Trevor loves going to visit Brendan

And then he waddled away.. waddle waddle!

Trevor is getting more brave about his walking!

Brendan says, “my next mission is to pull myself up on this thing”

This video is actually from yesterday but it is too cute to leave out. It is all shaky because I am trying to wave at him to get him to wave. He is very enthusiastic about waving to Trevor when he gets up in the morning!

Brendan shocked us all yet again today! We have noticed for a while now that he will occasionally make a sucking motion in his sleep. We have attempted to slip him a pacifier before but he usually wakes with a start and smacks it away.
Tonight he accepted it!

Not only that, but he sucked on it!!! This is a huge deal, it means that his natural reflex is not totally gone.

When he woke up, he was pretty angry about it. Another attempt later was pretty much same old Brendan, he swatted it away, annoyed. Still, we are very proud of him. Withdrawal persists, but in short spells.