With the boys’ 18month-old milestone approaching, I thought I should try to set up and take a couple “good” photos. What a failure! My lighting was bad, setup was awkward, and focus was off. Not to mention, attitudes of cooperation were nowhere to be found. Good thing there is time to try again.
Brendan was all excited to help set up the equipment
There were a few ok shots.
And the rest… disaster
Brendan was content to play with his “diversion” suction pump pieces. He had a good day, tomorrow we start pushing him back to where he was before he got sick.
Trevor might have a tooth bothering him. He ate a whole white-grape juice popsicle.
Trevor has a thing or two to show Kieran about happy dancing. Or maybe this should be called the ecstatic dance.
Brendan continues to improve but he has a LONG way to go to get back to where he was before he got sick. We were able to turn down his oxygen a bit today. He has not worn his PMV all week and we had to slow down his food rate while his stomach was upset. All things we will have to work on in time. Bill had to do a volunteer event for work and so it was just me and the boys all day. They were super sweet to me and had a pretty good day.
Trevor is working on facing his fears
We did a big game of “Inventory Undo”. Classic “Undo” is just me picking things up and the boys following behind and taking it all back out again. Every once in a while, we take all the toys out of the box, sort them, wipe them and put them away with all their pieces. We found and sorted everything but we are missing two letter magnets. Trevor takes great pride in hiding them from me.
After Undo, we worked on some sharing.
Trevor was good but still did plenty of climbing. He is at least getting better at it and slips and falls less.
They thought they were helping me do laundry
Brendan is helping me clean up after his brother.
It is work that is never done!
Trevor stepped in to Daddy’s shoes by himself. He must think he is big!
Brendan is most definitely feeling better and his numbers are gradually improving more and more. It is a huge relief to see the O2 sats come up. It was an odd Thursday to have Nurse Jen with us, so I decided to take Trevor out so that Brendan would play with her and not be distracted. The weather was too gorgeous to pass up the chance to get outside.
Back to the zoo we go! This time we remembered the hat and drink!
We went to a different section this time, first the reptile/amphibian house. He liked the frogs because they were moving. He didn’t care about the still snakes and lizards.
He loved the prairie dogs. They were VERY active, squeaking and fighting, and also stretching out to sun themselves.
We must have gone too early for the tiger, he was just waking up
Trevor had to be like the other kids at the tiger exhibit. He loves kids. He was walking up to strollers and saying hi to babies too.
He still loves vehicles
Rhinos are serious
We did one of the special exhibits today – the giraffe encounter. We got in line early so we were one of the first ones on the deck.
Trevor got to give the tallest giraffe a few pieces of lettuce
I fed the giraffe a little kibble of Giraffe Chow
These giraffes know how to pose for pictures
When we got home, Trevor got some lunch and then he took a 3hr nap. It was perfect because I could leave him home with Bill (working) and Jen and I could take Brendan to his checkup. Trevor slept the whole time and didn’t even realize we had left the house.
Brendan was in the Cars theme room at the doctor’s today.
The doctor says he sounds so much better, his color was better, he was breathing better, his ears were still a little red but much improved. Most of all, his sats are better! We still have not turned the oxygen down but right now he is sleeping and he is at 84-88% instead of the 73-78% where he was hanging a few days ago. Doc wants a follow up chest xray in 6 weeks just to see how he healed.
Tonight, Brendan was a spazz. He pulls up to stand on just about anything now!
He is getting more confident about reaching out for things.
Teamwork at its finest.
It is funny how cute the boys can be together and then how much jealousy there is. Trevor is having a hard time adjusting and doesn’t like Brendan playing with some of “his” favorite toys. Like his chomp and clack!
Brendan is jealous of Mommy-time with Trevor and tries to climb on to my lap anytime Trevor is with me.
Here’s another video montage for today, this time it is more Brendan focused. And he does something pretty cool!
