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!

Tons of things were accomplished today. Trevor and I raked and bagged leaves to try to wear him out. Trouble is, all of the increased activity that I have been trying to do with him lately has not really led to him sleeping more or better. It has increased his appetite significantly though! He eats a LOT now!

He did take a decent nap, long enough for me to finish the border and paint the window casing in the playroom. The painting is ALMOST done! I have just one weird wall to fix and it will be ready for carpet!

Brendan ate apple,pear,sweet potato blend today and did a great job! Almost a whole pouch! But the biggest thing that happened today was that the last pieces of Trevor’s new twin bed arrived. It is a good thing I happened to check the tracking number, because FedEx left my boxes at the wrong house. AGAIN. I got the bedding through the wash and then it was time for the switch.

The last picture of Trevor in his crib bed this morning

He was trying to somersault out

Time to take this bed apart!

The mattress was delivered in a box. It is a nice individally wrapped inner coil mattress with a euro top and it was ULTRA vacuum compressed and rolled in to the box. The boys came to check out the mattress sausage.

They were so excited when Bill cut the wrapping and the whole thing began to decompress and expand with a hisssss. When it was all expanded, Trevor clapped and said, “Again!”

He was pretty excited about his new sheets and pillow

He is reading his Trucks book in his trucks bed to his Gizmozes. (That is the plural of Gizmo, according to Trevor)

He always tells me that he “Needs Brendan’s Gizmo”. That’s why there are two in his bed.

The side rail that we bought to keep him from falling out had a major problem. A defective piece prevented it from being put together. Since we had already built the bed, Bill cut and welded the bars on the rail to make it work. It is probably much stronger this way anyway.
I hope we can lose the side rail soon, but since this bed is higher, we will let him get used to his space first. The rail folds down and tucks under the mattress when you don’t need it.

Trevor went to bed without any complaints. He was a little disoriented but seemed really comfortable. His mattress is so nice, I wanted to nap on it!

We will have to move the camera up now, but I am glad to see him sleeping very soundly.

Here’s a quick video of the conversion