I learned an important lesson about a toddler and alarm clock combination last night. If said alarm clock is activated by a fiddling toddler that is having quiet time in his room, it will alarm at the default time of 12:00am. It will then scare the crap out of said toddler so that he spends the next two hours wide awake and full of adrenaline and fear. *YAWN*

We tried to make it a down day. The boys tried out the hide-a-bed and had their breakfast and tech-time.

Brendan likes to turn the ipad up to full volume and then cover his ears that it is too loud.

Trevor kept bringing me digger trucks and asking to go outside in the dirt, but I kept telling him it was hot like an oven outside. He settled for scooping “shiny rocks”. Brendan enjoyed shaking them in the tin can (also VERY loud)

They shared a “bowl” of chex mix off of the couch. Trevor’s little stick vacuum actually worked really well to clean this up when they were done.

This series of spy-cam shots is from the hour and twenty minutes that it took me to get clean sheets back on Trevor’s bed. They were “helping”.

Trevor skipped his nap, but went to bed at 7:30pm. Brendan is still fighting bedtime at 9:00pm.

The countdown now officially begins……… 10……

In what might be the undeniably craziest thing we have ever done, in ten short days, we will be hooking up Gramma’s house and taking it on the trip that we have been prepping for these last 8 months.