It is a super-early blog day today because I already have enough cuteness for one day. The boys have been going like crazy and now they are taking a nap.

There are huge changes coming up for Brendan. Due to a complete overhaul of the state’s early intervention program, and a change in the way they will approach service like PT, OT, and speech, Brendan is going to lose all three of his current therapists and he will have an all new team. We will meet the new people on Tuesday and have a new therapy schedule.
Brendan’s day nurse, Jen, will be going out on maternity leave in a few weeks, and his night nurse Jennifer has put in her notice to be leaving at the beginning of June. He is going to have an almost entirely new care team. We may be shuffling around some nursing hours too! The magnitude of the changes causes stress, but we are going to try to make the best out of all of this. It is just one more twist in the road on this journey.

We tried to get the most out of outside this morning before it got too hot (which was at 9:30am!). Brendan was working on his climbing.

And just in case you think we are setting up the pictures, here is more evidence that Brendan is a little monkey in the making.

They had a blast knocking down stacks of blocks going around on the carousel.

Brendan helped Trevor with fashion advice

I spent all morning cleaning up puddles. It was the day of leaks I guess, Brendan’s feeding tube leaked first, then the med port opened again, Trevor’s sippy cup leaked everywhere, formula truck tipped and spilled more gross formula, it just was “mommy the mop” all morning. So Brendan lost his soaking wet onesie.

Brendan played Yo Gabba Gabbas

Brobee kisses

We ordered some commercial grade “random variety” carpet tiles for in the new office and they arrived today. It will be pretty fun flooring in there. We sorted through all the tiles and picked out the ugliest ones that we won’t use. The boys enjoyed helping sort the tiles and then had a blast climbing on the piles.
They had a pretty lengthy conversation too.

And this was all before lunch!! There is a ton of painting still to do in the new room, and then Bill can install the new ceiling fan and start working on the flooring. The goal was too move the desk in next weekend, it will be a tight deadline. With the blog done early, hopefully I can help get things done.

Today’s adventures were nowhere near as exciting as yesterday. We did a ton of laundry, some sorting and cleaning, and watched some Yo Gabba Gabba.

The boys were both a little crabby this morning. Trevor hasn’t been sleeping great and he has been up real early in the morning. I think he might be getting a big tooth in. I was getting so frustrated with all the whining, and then I had an idea. Make something old new again. It worked for a good amount of time!

It started with an empty toybox

But it turned in to a cool fort

The changing of the guard

Sharing is hard

Hmmm, I wonder where Brendan went?

Hide and Seek is tough!

Here is a quick montage of some of the antics of the day.

We waited tonight to give Brendan his bath until after the blog was done. He has been playing and busy all evening, now I hope that he will go to bed without so much fuss!

It was an action packed Wednesday (Wednesdays are supposed to be down days!) I took Trevor for an outing so that Brendan could play without interference.

It was already 85 degrees by 8am so we had to go out early. It turns out it was perfect, we almost had the park to ourselves! The water play area that we went for didn’t start to run until 9am so we had to kill a little time in the playground.

Trevor didn’t mind! He rode a quad.

There were at least ten slides to climb on!

There were ramps

And bridges

Waiting for 9am with a “Hi, Mommy!”

The exclamation from Trevor when the water started was hilarious! “ooooohhhh!!!”

It was so nice to have the place to ourselves. By midday, this little water play area gets PACKED with rowdy kids of all ages and it would be no place for Trevor to be.

He was unsure about this fountain, he would not touch it

He just watched from a distance until it cycled to the next thing

Wrapped a baby up in towels, ready to go home for lunch!

Before lunch, we still had time for some Brendan chasing hallway craziness

Brendan ate some cinammon applesauce!! And he kind of liked it!

“Oh no, did you get this on camera?”

nom nom nom

Later in the day, he played with, hid, and smashed some cheerios.

“It may look like I am eating them…”

“…but I just lick ’em and flick ’em”

I had to add to Trevor’s chores list. Now he has to wash dishes too!

He has to scrub out all the bottles

Trevor is in bed, and now it is time to try to rock Brendan. I hope he doesn’t stay up until 10pm tonight!