Monday is all about surviving the day, and that is what we did today. Brendan had a terrible night. He drank some milk before bedtime and it must have upset his tummy. He was awake a lot and crying. He needed to be held in order to sleep and he still would wake up and cry.
This morning, he seemed to get over it pretty quickly. He was in a pretty good mood today.
When Bill was done with work, I took Trevor to burn off some craziness. We went to a new park with a 3/4 mile trail around a lake and did a whole loop. He climbed stairs, did some hill sprints, and saw lots of ducks.

He especially like this big white duck

He loves rocks

Cooking Trevor tries to cut peppers with his pretend knife

He left the cutting to me, but he did the washing

I got Brendan a new bag of his favorite pretzels

He wanted to help cook too, so he made pasta

Since Brendan finished dinner, Trevor had to go do laundry

I didn’t get to work on any projects today, we will try to get more done tomorrow!

I didn’t get a thing done in the playroom today, I guess it can wait another day. 🙂

Bill did yardwork and I had a special project for the boys to do. It was a success! I dumped out a bunch of PVC parts from the hardware store, and they were very excited to stack them and piece them together.

We had a plan, Brendan was helping!

Trevor really liked putting the things together. He wanted to help me glue them, but that was not going to happen!

We spent some time outside while the weather was nice. Brendan has great attention to detail while sweeping!

Trevor is getting to be very good at cooking. He helps with everything each night for dinner, he just does not do raw meat or get near hot things. All of the mixing, pouring, measuring, opening cans, etc … that is his job! Here he is pushing crescent roll dough in to the muffin pan.

He made taco cups! They were so good, he ate a whole one all by himself

Here is the rough draft of our project – it is a four stage car wash! Soap, wiping rags, soon-to-be rotary scrubbers, and then the rinse! 🙂 We got it as done as possible for tonight, I will have to finish it tomorrow.

Both boys were excited, but Trevor LOVED it

Airplanes can go through the wash too

When it is totally done, I will have to take a video to show the “action”

I sized it to fit Trevor’s big blue garbage truck, but I guess in doing so I sized it to fit Trevor!

“One more time!”

Even Brendan thought he would give it a try!

I had to step out of Trevor’s room while we were getting ready for bed. I came back to this! He used to get in his bed while he waited for me to come back. He has yet to figure out the best way to get in to his new bed!

With no nurse tomorrow for the day, I am hoping the car wash will keep the boys entertained. We will be fixing the soap level and finishing the scrubbers!

I barely remember what we did today, we worked hard and it all blended in to the days before. I finished all the painting and finally cleaned and put everything away.
The only thing left is this dumb wall. Bill scraped off a bunch of old, dry, nasty cork and I have to recover it. Trevor was helping.

He is always good at the cleanup part

Brendan sat in his chair in the playroom and watched me working while playing. Must be nice!

After dinner, I took Brendan for a bike ride. He doesn’t look excited in the picture, but it is the look of impatience because I am taking too long.

As soon as we got back, Bill took Trevor out for his ride to end the day. Trevor slept beautifully in his big boy bed all night. He took a decent nap, and he is in bed tonight with no fuss. He likes it!