I have a ton of Trevor pictures, so I will start with the Brendan cuteness. His old nurse came back today and swore that he has grown an inch and lost some of his baby chub. They had a good day. Brendan helped me cook tonight, although mostly he ate his favorite mustard pretzels while I did all the work.

He is the cutest!

I took Trevor to the zoo this morning. It was the perfect day for it. It was cool, slightly overcast, and since school just resumed from holiday break, there were no buses full of kids!
Trevor got to feed the giraffes. He has been talking about it since.

Trevor has his souvenir cup that gets free refills. He was very excited to have his “own Coke”.

We took a break here and watched his favorite (fla)”mingos” fighting.

He wanted to ride on the carousel and picked out his own animal

We were turning on to our street when we got the text that the garbage truck was coming. We raced to get Trevor out of the carseat and to his wall, just in time!

He hasn’t been able to see the truck in a while because it comes at such odd times now (usually in the middle of nap time).

My plan mostly worked. Trevor took a good nap up until the point some jerk with a very loud motorcycle decided to rev and run up and down in front of my house. I was impressed with Trevor though, he stayed in his bed and rested, awake, for about 40 minutes while I finished painting what I had started. When I got him out of bed, he said “Good boy nap”.
I am going to go paint more now!

I can hardly believe the fierce cold winter weather happening on the other side of the country. I truly hope everyone stays safe and warm.
The high here was 70 today, and we made the most of it.

I finally relented and let Trevor have the old vacuum. It is pretty heavy, but he would ask for it all the time.

I am not sure how this would work in the grass

Brendan puts his feet up for the drive-in vacuum show

Trevor knows just how to step on the pedal to release the lock that lets the vacuum tip back

I have worked so hard with Trevor to stop him from hitting Brendan when he gets frustrated. Brendan still tries to come and take any toy that Trevor has. Trevor now says “Excuse me, Brendan. It’s my turn.” It is so adorable how he says it and he does it now without prompting. I love it. I help remove Brendan so that Trevor doesn’t get frustrated, and I try to get Brendan playing with something else.

“Trevor gets a vacuum, and I get this baby toy”

When Bill was done working, I took Trevor to the park to try to get more of his wiggles out. He went for a nice long run.

He explored the railroad

He hugged a dolphin. I wonder if he even remembers that these spray water when the weather is warm.

Tonight at dinner, Brendan cut the cheese!

Trevor had a pouch of prunes, and we gave one to Brendan too.

He was really eating it!

I think he likes prunes (and needs them right now!). He ate quite a bit of the pouch!

I am going to try to take Trevor for an adventure tomorrow to wear him out. If he will take a long nap, I might be able to get more painting done!

I always want to start off with “it was a very busy day”. I should go back and see how many entries start that way. It WAS busy.
It was Daddy-day with the boys because I prepped, cleaned, taped, and painted in the playroom. We have some momentum going on this project now and we are all eager to get it finally finished! As hard as I worked, it was almost relaxing compared to taking care of the two wild munchkins. I got the walls all done. The flooring comes in later this week so we want to get the painting all done so we can install it!

“What’s old is new again” works very well with toys. We had put up the ball pit for several months, and the boys were thrilled to see it again! I only took a few shots and a video. The hilarity of the ball pit was great. Bill shook it, spun it, flung the boys around and they were all laughing, but if I stood there with my camera, I wouldn’t have gotten so much work done!

After dinner tonight, we heard the ice cream truck in the neighborhood. It was already getting dark, so Bill took Trevor out with a flashlight to see if they could find it. They finally did see it come out of a side street, but it turned the wrong way and they couldn’t flag him down.
Trevor had a blast anyway on his flashlight walk. (cell phone pics in the dark stink!)

He still had to stop and look at rocks.

Brendan got a turn to go on a flashlight walk too. He went pretty far!
We are back to our old schedule this week. Our nurse on leave comes back Tuesday. Hopefully we can get our routine back in shape!