It was just one of those days around here. When everyone is healthy and things are going well, I guess I set an expectation that the day will be fun and productive. I stayed up with Brendan last night and only got sleep in 15-30 minute patches all through the night. The moment I would lay my head down and close my eyes, something would beep or buzz or Brendan would turn and get all tangled. He was very active in his sleep last night.
I can’t count the number of times I dropped something, broke something or did something wrong today. I was clumsy, tired and crabby.

Bill tried to help by taking Trevor out on an outing. They went to a plumbing supply store and then ended up at a park Bill used to go to as a kid.

Everything today was a battle. I couldn’t let my guard down for a second, the boys were climbing on to precarious perches, throwing train buildings, hitting each other, trying to get to the electrical outlets under the vent, spilling everything they could. There wasn’t a moment to breathe.
I tried to take Trevor out front to play in his sandbox. If I even turned my head, he was taking the shovel and eating mouthfuls of sand. He seemed to like it. But almost everything I put on his tray for meals got thrown or fed to the dogs.
If they weren’t fighting over the iPad, they were trying to stand on it. I don’t know how we will survive the terrible twos at this rate.

Needless to say, I didn’t take pictures, our hands were full.

I can’t have a no-Brendan picture day, so here is a cute spy cam shot.

Trevor’s outing this morning was odd. I took him to the park by the library to check it out. All of the playground was fully exposed to the sun so it was too hot to play. There was a small lake and plenty of ducks so we walked down there to check it out. There was this funny duck that looked a bit like Don King.

We didn’t take anything to feed them today, but the pigeons didn’t know it. As we walked around the water, we came up on some very big geese.

The geese were aggressive and started to charge at us, hissing!! I would yell at them and they would back off, but as soon as you turned around, they would charge.

We went in to the library since we were there and read a few books. Trevor was too wound up though and wanted to run.

The library was just too “yucky” and it was making me nervous. Brendan just got back to healthy! When a 4yr old girl with no parent in sight picked her nose and ran up to try to wipe it on Trevor’s shirt, we got out of there as fast as we could.

I am really missing my newer camera. It is hard to take pictures in my dark living room. The shop will have it for a few more weeks! Brendan had a great day. He is so smiley, silly, and trying to do all the naughty things he has seen Trevor do. He is taking apart the train bridge.

He has to put some of the parts in the vise.

Trevor spent some time this evening playing outside in the sand box with Bill. When he came in, he got a quick sink bath. (His second of the day, he had one after the library too!)

He was very busy and wouldn’t look at the camera except when I asked him to make his “yum” face.

Trevor is getting pickier every day about what he will eat. He is mainly objecting to textures. He wouldn’t eat his broccoli/cauliflower mix even with cheese sauce on it because it wasn’t cooked soft enough. I wouldn’t let him escape the high chair without his greens tonight, so he drank some baby food green beans with a straw and loved it. Whatever it takes.

We survived “Friday the 13th”. Hopefully it will be a nice, uneventful weekend.

Trevor was up several times during the night, crying a sad sleepy cry. He would go right to sleep again if I picked him up and rocked him but he would wake up shortly after putting him down. He was up at 11:30, 1, and 3 if I remember right.

We had no appointments or obligations today so I took Trevor on a new adventure. Our penny collection bin was overflowing, so we went to a Coinstar machine to cash them in. (If you cash them in for a gift card, there is no fee at all, you get your full value!)
In the past we have gotten Amazon cards, but that wasn’t an option this time so we selected iTunes instead. Trevor will have to use it to buy the rest of the Yo Gabba Gabba episodes we don’t have. There was almost $33 in pennies!!

Trevor really likes coins. He has a piggy bank and whenever we find change in the laundry, he puts the coins in his pig. He has never gotten to shovel coins in to his pig though. He had a blast.

Brendan had a very good day. He took his own pictures today using the camera on my laptop.

He found the button that adds an effect called “dizzy”. The birds are animated until you click the camera button to take the picture.

He liked the birds!

Brendan wore his PMV for more than four hours today. We started it while Trevor was out running errands. This afternoon after naps, he wore it while I was in the other room with Trevor. Trevor could hear Brendan and I tried to help him just play and ignore it.
We brought them together and for about 25 minutes, Trevor did a really good job tolerating the noise. But when Brendan started to cry, it was all Trevor could handle and he just sobbed and cried. We were very proud of both of them though, it was very good progress in the right direction.

There was extreme silliness in the house tonight but I didn’t get pictures. Bill was sitting on the floor in the middle of the room and the boys were crawling circles around him, chasing each other with laughing fits. But the true hilarity started when Trevor found four cotton balls. They were the coolest toy he has EVER seen tonight. He would gather them up, run across the room, then throw them as hard as he could with a grunt/squeal that could only be rivaled by a women’s tennis match. He would laugh, Brendan was laughing so hard he fell over. He would gather them up again and repeat, and this went on for at least 30 minutes!