We want to wish a very happy Grandparents Day to all the Grandmas and Grandpas. We are very excited that Gramma is able to come out to visit again in October and help to celebrate the boys’ 2nd birthday.

Our usual Sunday morning grocery trip turned in to quite an adventure. It poured rain so hard all morning that there was poor visibility to drive and we got soaking wet going from the car to the store. We had to make a second stop for the diapers and extras at Sam’s too.

I am missing my big camera. With the gloomy rainy darkness, it is hard to take pictures inside without it. I should hear tomorrow about the repair.

Nothing better on a rainy day than a snack and a fuzzy blanket

Or chewing your favorite book

The boys are still loving their trains

If you take your eye off Brendan for a second, he is climbing now. Little naughty monkey baby is almost as bad as his brother

Tomorrow is going to be a challenge. I will have the boys alone from 8a-8p because of events at Bill’s work. They had better be nice to me!!

We had a lot on our plate to do today. Bill had to start with the yardwork. In order to keep the boys busy while he was out front, I set up a new layout for the trains.

They played together nicely for quite a while. Brendan is still a Brendanzilla and wants to tear the layout apart. Trevor really enjoys trying to put the cars on the trains.

Peek-a-boo

Brendan tries to stop the trains from going by

After lunch and nap time, they were right back at it. This time, Daddy was mowing in the back yard

Brendan keeps trying to get on the table

Trevor tries to give the train a drink of his milk

This is Trevor’s favorite train because it hauls green recycle bins.

He makes cute sound effects as he dumps the bins in to the train cars

I noticed Trevor making signs that he was going to poop this afternoon, so I grabbed his potty chair. He didn’t have any problem sitting on it in the living room and he pooped one little turd in his potty! This is 9 or 10 days in a row that he has gone on the potty successfully. He felt so proud, he pulled the drawer right out and wanted to go flush his accomplishment.
While we were out of the room for just a moment to flush and clap, Brendan decided he should climb in

“This isn’t how you do it?”

Trevor knows just what the potty is for and what to do now. But he is still totally unable or uninterested in telling me he has to go BEFORE he goes. Small successes though, we will take it!

We got a small amount of purging done in the old office room today too. That is a huge undertaking, but we are eager to get that playroom finished so we can use it!!

Trevor slept for almost 12hrs and woke up feeling a little more smiley than yesterday. We had plans to go meet some people from the Moms’ group for a playdate at one of their houses so he was getting ready in his swim gear. He heard noises outside and got all super excited that it was the garbage truck. I tried to tell him it was Friday and that he was crazy.
But then I heard it a few times. We opened the door, and sure enough, there was the big green truck right across the street doing a special pick up at the neighbor’s house. He had a bunch of dead tree branches again from the recent storms. This little guy was happy.

We watched the two men load all the branches up and then pull away. They both waved at Trevor.

There were four other toddlers and a 7mo old girl at the Meetup today. There were also tons of toys, a baby pool, a water table and a very crazy dog.

I felt like an ogre crashing a pixie party. This subset of the Moms’ group was made up of tiny little tan 20-somethings who all were talking about where they get their nails done and how they manage all of the flights and trips they are taking with their kids. Three of them might have jumped on a teeter-totter against me and not made it budge. I was worried that if I sneezed too hard it might blow them over.
I gave up trying to have a conversation when one was giving details about her 2.5yr old’s upcoming 5th trip to Disneyland. I just played with all the kids. Trevor had a very good time and that’s what counts. He was nice to all the kids (he saves all of the kicks and punches for Brendan I guess). I played with the baby for a while, she was adorable.

Brendan is doing well. He has been in the most silly adorable moods and you just want to scoop him up and squish him with loving hugs when he smiles so big. He is hilarious.
He was having a great time jumping in his crib with Trevor tonight.

Trevor is giving Brendan a kiss to say sorry for assaulting him with kicks earlier.

Brendan keeps practicing his balancing. He is too cute when he lets go of the rail and then smiles real big and waits for the clapping and cheers.

We wish a very very happy birthday to Great Grandma Bobbie today. We are happy to hear that Aunt Schnah and Kieran made it safely to IL on his first plane trip. We sure wish we could be there to celebrate with the whole family. We hope Caleb gets to feeling better too, he had a rough night with a cold, such bad timing!

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of Brendan having his ileostomy reversal surgery. So much has changed in one year. I can’t even imagine what Great Grandma’s next birthday will bring.