Things are starting to finally “normalize” with the boys. It will be abnormal in the house for a while as we adjust to Quinn being gone.

We are ultimately hopeful that our plans with Quinn go smoothly this weekend. Bev from the dog rescue has been amazing and jumped in to action immediately despite the busy holidays. We have had a lot of communication today and want badly for these plans to work. A friend of the rescue is going to pick him up tomorrow and spend the afternoon evaluating him and his personality. If he “passes”, she will then take him to meet a potential family on Sunday. This is not just any family, they currently own his look-a-like littermate.
We would feel wonderful if we knew that Quinn could be reunited with his pup-sister, and be in a loving home. He just has to do well!
Bill had to get him to the vet this afternoon for a full exam and updates to vaccines and that all went well.
This is still very emotional and challenging, but this is encouraging.

Trevor’s face was better today than I expected. I keep applying neosporin and it is healing fast. He doesn’t notice it, although he did have a small black eye.

We didn’t have any day nurse today, so we did the “keep the boys busy toy sort” thing again. This time, I pulled out a giant box of babyish toys that they have outgrown to make room for some new Christmas things. Amazon gift cards from Christmas will mean fun packages.

Trevor found a blanket and tried to spread it out and said “picnic!” I helped them with the blanket and the two of them sat and played for a while. They were doing peek-a-boo with each other.

This must be some twin language. I can decipher about half of it.

Then they sorted money in to pigs.

They lounged and watched some TV.

Trevor performed an auto-appendectomy

With all of the phone calls and work to do and the garbage truck coming on an off day because of the holiday, the boys’ nap time was a total nap fail for both of them. This was Trevor’s nap:

We are extremely grateful to Bailey for keeping Quinn for us for now. It is possible he could go to his new home as early as Sunday, but even if things go OK, they may not be ready for him right away. We will have work to do. We hope for the best! We are ready to put 2013 behind us and move forward.