Trevor and I did the usual grocery run this morning, plus a trip to Sam’s Club to stock up on berries! We were busy all day, I didn’t get out the camera until this evening.

The boys went for a Sunday drive

Trevor doesn’t like the idea of driving with feet

We heard an ice cream truck in the neighborhood, so we went out front to watch for it. Brendan decided to mow.

Trevor likes to put little rocks in to holes in the tow hitch. Bill loves to hear them rattling and falling while he drives.

Bill took each of the boys on a quick bike ride tonight.

Such cute B’s!

And the post-bath antics…

So our big evening was a success. We told the boys we were having a “slumber party”. We sort of went camping, in that we all slept in the trailer on the side of the house. It was an early trial run for what it would take for us to really do an overnight somewhere.
It was an important learning experience for us all.

This time, we waited until the boys were through their bath and in their jammies. Then we all went out there and had silly time until it was time to go to sleep. Next time, we will try to go out in the afternoon and see how it works to get them cleaned up and do Brendan’s trach care in the trailer.

They were so excited! All day, I told Trevor we were going to sleep in “Gramma’s house” and so after dinner, he kept asking to go out there. They were giddy to be out there at night.

Brendan and Bill slept in the back room where we could set up all the equipment. We tried out the little crib, but it worked better for him to just sleep in the bed with Bill.

Trevor and I slept in the front room. It was so quiet that every time the heater kicked on, Trevor would wake up and say, “Man cutting a tree?” or “Someone vacuuming?” or “Fan on?”. Next time I will set up his white noise machine to help him sleep through it! They both slept pretty well all things considered.

At dawn, they poured out of the trailer and went straight to mowing. We must have missed some long grass yesterday. 🙂

The grass was damp, so the bubbles from the mower lingered for quite a while

You’re being followed!

Trevor was totally worn out for nap time and fell asleep fast. Brendan must have had a great night of sleep because he napped for about 25 minutes!

Later in the afternoon, we decided to do a little spring cleaning. We hosed down the play mat, took down the baby gates (for good!), and cleaned the fort and slide. To stay warm, the boys had to wear their pirate towels. 🙂

I should never try to get the blog done early. I am editing a few hours after initially posting to add the silliness of post-bath antics tonight. We call this game Jump-jump-drop.

Happy Valentine’s Day!
We took pictures of the boys’ Beads of Courage to post on Facebook today so the boys will get a special heart bead.

Trevor has his own string we finally got put together

It was over 80 degrees today so we did some real yardwork. The boys were mowing like crazy

Trevor loved the leaf blower so much that he would sprinkle grass clippings on the driveway just so he could blow them away

He helps put gas in Brendan’s mower

Each boy likes their own mower, but there is some preference to the blue bubble mower. Brendan just wants to try to take it away from Trevor

Trevor won

Back to happy mowing

We talked to Gramma on the phone for a while. We had to go pretty quickly, and Trevor took the phone to say goodbye, but I think Gramma already hung up so she missed his message.
I think she could use this today

Trevor took zero nap today, but turned on his light and played quietly in his room while Brendan napped

The boys got special chocolate ice cream sundaes with cherries on top for the holiday

We have some big plans tonight for something very special for the family. I will have to post about it on tomorrow’s blog though! It should be awesome.

Hopefully it will be less disrespectful to the furniture than this