Lots of day-to-day stuff happening this month. Considering how soon it was after major surgery, we are relishing in the day-to-day.

Brendan is even mowing the grass. 🙂

Bill took apart rocket bike for repairs and added a really loud horn

New wheels arrived!

Brendan received a really cute handmade owl from a friend in England. He was excited. He also is modeling his owl hat.

Bill has been trying to make more time for biking.

Not all graffiti is ugly!

Brendan had a cardiology checkup. His doctor was so excited about how well he is doing. His echo looked great. Brendan was so good about holding still so they could get good images. We are so relieved every time we see the doctor smiling.

Look at him jumping!

We spent some time at LegoLand. Now that school has started, it is harder to find time to go. Trevor uses his time to recruit his army of Lego minion men.

They can take over the world now.

Playing with their friend Landon

The weather starting to get cooler means biking to the playground

Brendan saw the eye doctor for a checkup. His prescription is super strong, but the bigger problem is that his right eye is going lazy. So it means wearing an eye patch on his strong eye and letting the weaker one have a chance to improve.

After all he has been through, the eye patch is near the top of the list of things he hates. He had the most miserable sad face and tears about wearing it at first. He has since adjusted, but he still hates it. He loses his depth perception and says that it is hard to build his Lego creations.

We got in some splash pad time. Brendan is enjoying playing in the water, but his stoma still has a tiny tiny hole. That means no swimming just yet. So close!

The Odysea Aquarium turned one year old this month. It is hard to believe it has been open a year. We have really used our membership a lot! We got invited to a members only birthday party. It was so busy! But there was cake.

The boys are serious about cake.

They got extra time with the stingrays and a diver helped the boys feed the rays.

A penguin was out to visit. But the place was so loud, both Brendan and the penguin were having a hard time.

Trevor finalized his Halloween costume with a cool energy sword. (He is Master Chief from the video game “Halo”)

The boys helped work on the longest running home renovation project ever. Time and money constraints may mean it takes 3 years, but it will be cool when it is all done. And it involved giant hammers.

To end the month, Bill took the boys on a little guys-only trip to the woods for an overnight. I had a huge volunteer photography project with HopeKids that weekend so they went for some fun with our friends Big Blake and Little Blake.

Trevor was super excited to find real mossy cobblestone (like in Minecraft)

The boys like to ride a lot in the woods. Brendan does a good job keeping up with the other boys.

But he can still convince Bill to carry him around

Silly boys!

September seemed to go by in a blink! The blog has taken a back seat to a lot of other things, I don’t want to let it go so long between updates. But time is flying by!