Early to bed, early to rise. Putting the boys down early last night meant that they were up and ready to go before me. Trevor was up at 6:45am.

I had a dental appointment this morning at 8:00am so I got Trevor fed and handed him off to Daddy. They played MegaBlocks, changed batteries in clocks, and tried to still work while I had my teeth cleaned. I went in fearing a huge list of work to do like root canals, but I had only one cavity that they were able to fill right then so I don’t need to go back.

I made it home in time for therapy, Brendan’s new PT came today with his new/old OT. He did an awesome job, was very smiley, showed off all his stuff and even went to the new PT and let her hold him. Amazing the difference in the therapy session. Hopefully now that we have a good crew, we will actually get somewhere again.

I was sore, tired, cranky, and had a killer headache most of the day so I didn’t take pictures until dinner time. I kept the boys happy while I tried to cook by letting them try out watercolor painting. They are very serious little artists.

I wasn’t quite done with dinner when they got tired of painting, so I gave them markers. Washable dry erase markers on high chair trays was awesome until Trevor bit the tip off the marker.

He wasn’t the only one trying to eat the markers

Since he loves water, and he loved paint water, I tried some orange juice on Brendan’s tray and I gave him some special “paint brushes”

He fell for it for a while, he even tasted the orange juice by licking his hand and he didn’t get upset!

Then he wised up. Bye bye fry.

We had a little impromptu clapping contest. It started with a polite golf clap. We both were clapping, waiting to see if the other would stop first.

It led to full crinkle-face crazy clapping. Brendan won.

Trevor is signing that it is time to take a bath (the sign is like pretending you are scrubbing your chest with two bars of soap, up and down)

Evening routine complete, two boys in bed. All is well and quiet, and Brendan is on 2L!

Trevor had another rough day. I am not sure what exactly has been bothering him, but he is very emotional, easily melts down, and has been extra diligent about attacking his brother again. Maybe he is getting his molars, maybe not enough sleep. It is exhausting to handle him when he is feeling like this.

I tried to help the day by taking him to the duck park. It was only 82 degrees this morning but it was muggy. After all the rain we just had, duck park was more like duck beach! You could sit at a picnic table and soak your feet at the same time.

Trevor didn’t care either way, he just wanted to throw cheerios to the ducks

We did a few laps, but we had some sidewalk issues

I got Trevor a new kind of straw cup to try, but he immediately figured out that it was no drinking cup, but a milk bubbling device.

At least it kept him calm and entertained while I tried to make dinner

Brendan had a good day, I just didn’t get to spend much time with him. He had therapy today and did well enough, until I let him fall on his face and split his lip open. There was some blood but he got over it quickly. I only got a few pictures of him in the tub tonight.

Antics were high tonight, my patience was out and I put Trevor to bed early. Surprisingly enough, he did not protest. Hopefully we all can reset and have a better day tomorrow.

I am happy to report that we all survived this Monday! It was actually a long, unusual, fun, exhausting day. It started out with the never-ending storm that caused flooding everywhere, even in my own backyard.

This is the first time I have ever seen several inches of water on my patio, all the way up to the house. It even had its own current.

I took the boys out because Trevor wanted to splash in it, but we had to come in because the play mats were floating away!

It rained and rained and rained all morning. I had the boys busy playing with no TV on for hours. They were in good moods and laughing with each other, it was nice to see. I had to stay very active and keep them going. When crabbiness set in for the pre-lunch tired and hungry time, I had to resort to using Yo-Gabba-Gabba. I love my little dancer, he has some cute moves!

After it stopped raining, the temperature was 75 degrees! We had to take advantage of that and go outside! I got the bin of sand out for Trevor to play.

Brendan just wanted to ring the doorbell!

Brendan started to warm up to the idea of playing in the sand, slowly. They were outside for two hours!

I kept trying to move it closer to him, but he kept using his foot to slide it away!

The look

He likes to rub things on his lips and he makes the cutest little face with it!!

Trevor loved the sand…

But Brendan got more dirty!

The naughty monkey baby saga continues…

Let’s see how this “dinner” is going to go down

If I ask Brendan to touch the food, he will – with one finger for a half of a second. Then he smiles and wants you to clap for him.

Then if I don’t move it fast enough, he will touch it long enough to throw it

I got him to handle the bologna more by having him break pieces so he could give them to Eins. (no complaints out of Eins, the only thing falling from Trevor’s tray tonight was peas)

Brendan’s night nurse came in a few hours early tonight, which was good because I would have really struggled to get through bath and trach care time alone!
I am glad for days that are positive, even though my feet and back are killing me!