I am happy to report that we all survived this Monday! It was actually a long, unusual, fun, exhausting day. It started out with the never-ending storm that caused flooding everywhere, even in my own backyard.

This is the first time I have ever seen several inches of water on my patio, all the way up to the house. It even had its own current.

I took the boys out because Trevor wanted to splash in it, but we had to come in because the play mats were floating away!

It rained and rained and rained all morning. I had the boys busy playing with no TV on for hours. They were in good moods and laughing with each other, it was nice to see. I had to stay very active and keep them going. When crabbiness set in for the pre-lunch tired and hungry time, I had to resort to using Yo-Gabba-Gabba. I love my little dancer, he has some cute moves!

After it stopped raining, the temperature was 75 degrees! We had to take advantage of that and go outside! I got the bin of sand out for Trevor to play.

Brendan just wanted to ring the doorbell!

Brendan started to warm up to the idea of playing in the sand, slowly. They were outside for two hours!

I kept trying to move it closer to him, but he kept using his foot to slide it away!

The look

He likes to rub things on his lips and he makes the cutest little face with it!!

Trevor loved the sand…

But Brendan got more dirty!

The naughty monkey baby saga continues…

Let’s see how this “dinner” is going to go down

If I ask Brendan to touch the food, he will – with one finger for a half of a second. Then he smiles and wants you to clap for him.

Then if I don’t move it fast enough, he will touch it long enough to throw it

I got him to handle the bologna more by having him break pieces so he could give them to Eins. (no complaints out of Eins, the only thing falling from Trevor’s tray tonight was peas)

Brendan’s night nurse came in a few hours early tonight, which was good because I would have really struggled to get through bath and trach care time alone!
I am glad for days that are positive, even though my feet and back are killing me!