Another day of just me and the boys, this time it was just a regular work day for Bill and some emergency sprinkler repair in the yard. These boys wear me out! Tomorrow will be a throw back to old “Busy Tuesday”. We have flu shots in the morning, oxygen refill and OT.

I hope he shows off his new tricks for OT tomorrow. Like the way he licked all the salt off of about 7 pretzel sticks!

Trevor ate a good lunch. He still likes his rice.

“Not the toy in the food!!”

The Tormentor

Look who is TASTING peanut butter!

I can’t say what is cuter in the video. Brendan eating or Trevor’s “story”. I don’t know what the story is about, but it sounds very dramatic!

Trevor has fallen in love with “The Lonely Goatherd” from The Sound of Music. He wanted to watch it again and again and again. I love how he stops when he sees the camera and pretends like he was not just dancing.

Brendan continues to do well with his feeding routine. We will be making some more tweaks to it soon. This hourly nonsense makes me feel like I am a slave to a beeping pump!

I am so tired tonight, I am trying to keep my eyes open to type! Bill took care of Brendan overnight and he slept very well. He is still handling the change. With the tweaks to the first and last feed, it has been working out.

Bill had to make a trip to the west side of town today so it was just me and the boys all morning. I tried to keep them occupied inside with a giant Inventory Undo game. It worked for a whlie, they like sorting.

We counted everything and put all the pieces with the right stuff. Brendan counted 10 fish for the fishbowl

Trevor is going to bring back Synthpop with his multi-keyboard array. He is quite skilled

Trevor did a lot of Brendan tackling today. He doesn’t charge him anymore. With enough scolding and telling him to “be gentle”, Trevor now just walks over and slowly lowers himself on to Brendan and flattens him on the ground. It is like a tackle, only “gentle”.
To be fair, Brendan is Instigator Extraordinaire. No matter where Trevor goes or what toy he has, Brendan has to come and get involved or try to take it.
In order for Trevor to have a little time with his favorite “iGuy”, I had to build a Brendan-barricade.

Brendan put all kinds of things in the ball popper today.

I think he is trying to put himself in

More spilled milk! This time it is Trevor’s cup. Brendan turns the cup upside down and bends the straw against the floor to release the valve and make it spill.

Trevor is climbing on and helping sort a big pile of hand-me-downs. Thanks Josh and Adrienne and Jack for all the clothes! And thanks, Olivia, for being a girl so you didn’t need your brother’s stuff!!

I survived the first night with Brendan’s new plan and did not sleep very much. He is doing exceptionally well with it all day, but when he is asleep, his body has a hard time with the extra fast volume. Who wants to be fed in their sleep? His heart rate goes up and his sats go down, I had to turn up his oxygen quite a bit to help his sleeping body deal with the changes. Once the hour of feeding is done, everything goes back to normal.
We have made some adjustments to his schedule so hopefully he doesn’t have a problem tonight.
When I hooked his food up at 5:45 this morning, it woke him up instantly and that was it for the morning.

We went across the street today where the neighbor was having a yard sale and bought this machine for $2. (They also gave Trevor this huge Christmas train set for free! We will have to set it up around our tree this year)

Trevor loves ice and always wants to crunch ice chips. I hope that this soft flakey shaved ice is better for his teeth but still makes him happy. Ice chips have been known to stop tantrums. Trevor is signing “Cold!”

My ‘eat anything!’ kid has turned in to a ‘eat almost nothing’ kid. He used to down a cup of mandarin oranges before you could say ‘mandarin oranges’. Now he flings them instead. He even turned away strawberries. He spits out or throws a lot of things he used to love. I understand it is a common 2yr old phase, but it still is tough.

We play a game called “faces” when he is in his high chair. He works on his acting. I say “Make a HAPPY face” and he gives me this silly pretend smile. At least I have an idea what his “school photo face” will be like.

“Make a SURPRISED face”

“Make a SAD face”

Of course, he has his YUM face and a silly face and a fish face and a mad face, I will have to try to catch those.

Here is a BRENDAN face

On the productive parent side of things, Bill was trying to decide between overseeding/fertilizing the lawn or scraping the old popcorn off the playroom ceiling. He opted for the indoor activity. The room renovation is underway.

And here is some video cuteness.