It was an insane day today. Bill left the house before 4am to catch his plane. Trevor woke up at 5am screaming and I could not get him to go back to bed. He would relax if I rocked him, but if I tried to set him down, he would sob and cry this very sad cry.
I finally gave up trying and fed him breakfast at 6:30am, he was up for the day and woke up Brendan too.
With a poor night of sleep, he was a CRAB!! Brendan had an important meeting today with his new (old!) OT and Trevor made it nearly impossible to have a conversation. I gave him lunch early and got him to bed for a nap by 11:00am. I wish he would have slept longer, but 2hrs was enough to reset him a bit and he had a much better afternoon/evening. He just hasn’t been acting like himself.

I got him through the morning with train play. He loves these buildings because they move and process little square bales of “hay”. He even says “Haaaaayy!”

This building has a pretend chute to load the dump truck with dirt, complete with cool sounds.

I thought that Trevor napped through his recycle truck today, but it ended up coming at 3:45PM!! Crazy schedule! At least we were outside in time to see it!

I am very grateful for my two nurses today that both extended their shifts so that I had coverage for almost the entire day and evening. It is a lot of work without Bill here doing his part! Getting through dinner was the only time I was alone with them, and they did fine in their high chairs.

Trevor wouldn’t eat his favorite ham tonight, makes me suspicious about him not feeling well. He did devour lots of fresh mashed potatoes.

Brendan’s fork with mashed potatoes made it to the ground in record time

Trevor says, “That’s ok Brendan, you don’t need a fork when you can eat by the fistful”

Brendan says, “Are you sure we are related?!”

“When you were taking a picture of Trevor, I ate a bite of potatoes THIS BIG”

The bad news to share is that my camera is broken. It won’t turn on every time and when it does, it might not stay on long. I replaced both the main battery and the little date/time battery and no go. Bill did as much as he could to test and check it out, but it looks like it needs to go to the shop! 🙁
I had to pull out my 7yr old camera to take most of the pictures today, I already miss the big one!

Bill just walked in from the airport, safe and sound at home already. What a whirlwind day for him, going to Dallas and back in one day. We are all glad to have him home!

This ended up being a very full day for Trevor. I just intended to take him out of the house so that Brendan could try wearing his PMV (which he did for 30min!)

I didn’t know what to, then I had an idea. We went up to see the light rail trains going by. We went to the donut shop on the corner where we could sit in the window.

Walking up to the shop, we noticed there was an explosion of grasshoppers EVERYWHERE.

Trevor went up and down the sidewalk and chased them away, laughing when they hopped. (He really loves his shadow too.

Then we went in to watch donuts being glazed

He picked out his own treat (He ended up eating the sprinkles off and left the rest!)

He watched trains go by and he saw big birds swooping down and snatching up grasshoppers

When we got home, the mailman drove up behind us and handed Trevor a package. It was a new fan for Brendan and there was a picture of a fan on the box. Trevor was thrilled and pushed it all over the house in his shopping cart saying “fan! fan!”

Brendan had a nice fun day and in addition to wearing his pmv, he got turned down to 2.5L.

He had enough energy to be Brendanzilla

He helps to shake up the formula

Brendan-style drinking

He turned his cube over and wanted to climb in to it

So we obliged him

Bill has to get up in just a few hours to leave on a business trip to Texas. He will catch a late flight back the same day, it will be a long day! The boys had better be good!

We had a pretty good morning, got through lunch with no major issues, and just as I was about to put Trevor down for a nap I remembered that it was Tuesday and the garbage truck had not been by yet.

Trevor and I went out front to wait for it a while. It was noon, it should be around any time. He passed time doing what Trevor likes best – playing in water.

We had to settle for seeing it go down the side street. It finally came down our side and emptied cans at least 30min after we finally gave up waiting.

We did a lot of work today trying to sort out toys and “stuff” from the house and put a bunch of things on ebay.

Brendan had a good day, he is still on 3L. He won’t eat food, he gags on goldfish crackers, but he likes to eat baby lotion.

I tried to make a mohawk out of his “hair”