It’s ALLLLIIIIIIVVVE!!!

I am thrilled to report that I am doing the blog on my own laptop tonight. It will still need to go in for service because the battery does not want to charge, but it is booting and working beautifully for now. We opened it up and took the hard drive out in order to do backups and all my data is intact. WOOOO! I can sleep better now. I can’t tell you how relieved I am.

I don’t know how I did it, but I got through a whole day without any Brendan pictures. He had a great day, but I was so busy and I thought I had taken some.
I had two meetings today with his service and support people. The good news is we are not losing any nursing hours this cycle, and we updated his IFSP with new goals.

This is a Trevor-full blog and it should be, I am very proud of him. He slept beautifully through the night in his big boy bed! There were just a couple of spycam pictures to share!
Oops!

Dropped something?

Trevor played with his Christmas train while we waited for the first meeting. Things got rescheduled so much, I didn’t know for sure if anyone was going to show up.

We convinced Bill to take a lunch break and join us for a quick run to IKEA between meetings.

Fry dip variety

We waited and waited for the garbage truck, but it was late today. In the meantime, I tried to get Trevor to say Happy Birthday to Aunt Erin. As you can see, it didn’t go as planned.

I was expecting four people for the IFSP meeting at 12:30p, so I had to get Trevor down for his nap before they showed. He missed the garbage truck. He passed the ultimate test though. He heard it, he did get out of bed and try to go look but he did not mess with the window blinds. He was only out of bed for about 30 seconds before he raced back and jumped in again.
He was really obviously bummed about it being outside where he could not see, but he did not cry and he went to sleep as soon as it was gone. I am so happy that he is doing so well!

Speaking of sleeping…it looks like there are Brendan pictures after all. It is 10:20pm and he is still up and playing games. He refuses to sleep, even after Bill rocked and patted him for 45 minutes.

He is poking and licking Brobee’s eyes.

Now that this is done, I have to go try to convince him to sleep!!

Happy Birthday, Aunt Erin! Hope it was a good one!

Today was a mix of stress, joy, anger, excitement, more stress, and then appreciation. I am still burning up about my laptop and the cost of such a trivial error. I am worried about my data and whether or not I backed up enough.
We had to take both boys for bloodwork today and I was DREADING it. It is just part of their 2yr checkup but we had to go to a lab. It was difficult and sad but both boys did a wonderful job and it was over quickly.
No matter how tense and agitated or angry I felt today, I had to step back and look at the big picture and realize how privileged we are. The fact that we have a second new laptop in the house for me to borrow for this blog means that we have a lot to be grateful for.
The holiday today is a reminder to appreciate what we have and why we have it. We remember everyone who has sacrificed, whether it be their time, health, families, or lives, so that we can live so well that we only have to be hot about busted gadgets and expensive toys. Thank you to all who have served or are serving.

I am truly happy that my family is healthy today, and the rest is all material.

Outside of that, we had a very special day today. Something strange was happening in Trevor’s room! Crazy boys on the loose!

UH-OH!! Someone’s crib just transformed in to a daybed!

Trevor is a tumbler in his sleep, so for now, I took this other crib mattress and put it on the floor where he might fall out.

Trevor kept standing right on the edge of the bed, looking at me and saying “I’ma fall!”

Then about 100 times, he “practiced” what it would be like to fall out of bed!! I was cracking up.

He loves it

He quickly got better at jumping out of bed

He had to get familiar with every means of getting in to bed

So far, AMAZING! He took a nice long nap today and went to bed with no issues!

Trevor LOVES his construction truck videos and is learning the names of the equipment from these silly songs. He is so cute running around telling people “Impact hammer”. Sometimes he says it really well!

Trevor usually wakes up early and just spends time in his crib, resting, until someone comes to get him. I have no idea what the morning will be like now that he can get out of bed. It could get more interesting from here on out!

****UPDATE 11:00PM****
Moment of confusion, 10 minutes sleeping on the floor! He is so cute! He realized that the bed was much more cozy and climbed back in.

This was a great day right up until the end when my plastic insulated straw cup with a screw on lid burst open when I tried to move it and ice cold water sprayed me, the couch and my laptop. I guess the lid wasn’t screwed on correctly.
Even though I acted quickly, the machine had a keyboard protector, and there were only droplets on the laptop… it locked up, I shut it down and now it won’t turn on.
It looks like there is an expensive trip to the Apple store in my future. 🙁 It seriously makes me want to cry.

I am using Bill’s computer to upload all of these awesome pictures from today.

Brendan tried out his new pocket onesie and it worked well. I just have a few tweaks to do when I make more. He was walking in and out of the kitchen, turning the corner and everything.

Trevor went grocery shopping with me this morning. He is such a great helper.

Trevor loves his dogs. Eins is so tolerant, I am impressed. Eins gets a hug and a kiss.

While Bill mowed the lawn, I kept the boys inside for lunch and play time. I gave Brendan a fruit cup in jello. He actually liked stabbing it.

After eating, we changed to “playing in the snow”. The $2 I spent at the yard sale for that snow cone machine was money well spent!! A few cups, some trucks and tons of shaved ice at the push of a button, hours of entertainment!

The most awesome part about snow is cleanup is a breeze!

(PS Gramma, Creme de Menthe syrup is REALLY good on shaved ice!!)

We are on Year 3, Week 3, Day 3. If 666 is evil, 333 must just be naughty. Here are some naughty pictures to celebrate.