Mondays are days with no help, so that also means no outings. It is difficult to keep the boys entertained and wear them out when we are confined to the house. It gets harder to keep them safe when they are both getting to be regular monkeys that want to push and test their boundaries.

I started out the morning by breaking out the huge box of tools. As soon as I saw Brendan trying to climb in, I grabbed the camera.

I really enjoy seeing them tolerate each other in close proximity – at least some of the time!

Brendan looks like an old pro

Trevor did not want to get dressed today, but he mostly put on his own shoes and he wanted the tool belt on.

He is working on his foreman stance

He must be tweezing his eyebrows the manly way

They wore me out by 9:30am

And then they got going. Look who climbed up there all by himself! (I only wish I was kidding!)

He is perfecting his high kick, but he has yet to get up there using this method

Brendan wore his PMV almost the entire day and he wore it out with his talking!

I decided to show the boys the new video of their cousing K-rex growling. Trevor didn’t think much at first but Brendan would burst out in laughter any time Kieran would growl. I had tears of laughter in my eyes watching him laugh at his cousin! After a few replays, Trevor got caught up in it too. After that, just seeing the video start made them laugh although the growl parts really fired them up.

If you don’t follow Kieran’s blog, here is the video that they are watching:

Here is the “reaction video”

It was a hard day physically and very draining emotionally but I just remember how much worse we have been through and how quickly this time will be gone. I try to appreciate the boys even for their tantrums. They are amazing little kids.