I am going to start things out today with a little experiment. I heard again today from someone, “I would like to comment on your posts but don’t want to register and bother with another password to remember”. This is probably at least the 20th time someone has said this. I set up the blog for user registration mostly because I was nervous about spam comments and bots.
But because I secretly wish more people would comment because it really helps keep us in good spirits, I am going to do a little trial. If you are already registered and logging in – thank you, and please continue to use your login! For a short time, I have opened comments up to anyone and all you have to do is type a name and email address (email will not be published in any way, it will just link your comments if you post more than once).
We will see how it goes. If there is spam, I am closing it up. Google Analytics tells me that 35-45 unique visitors come to see the blog every day, you should say hi once in a while!

Next up – two adorable videos.

Trevor loves his dogs!

Brendan is not wearing his speaking valve (he still hates it!) but he is getting better and deliberately pushing an exhale past his trach so he can make noise. His little coos and squeaks are so cute, I can’t stand it! I caught a few here:

We had a super busy day. We had PT which was awesome, OT which was a crying mess, Oxygen refill, and monthly supply delivery (Fedex, UPS and Ontrak all visit and drop boxes). The boys handled it all pretty well, so many people coming and going. What I haven’t figured out is Trevor’s evening tantrum time. As soon as Bill comes home from work, Trevor goes in to meltdown mode. If Bill takes him outside or even to a different room to explore, he is fine. It is like he knows that I have Brendan and Daddy being home means he gets to finally break free of baby jail.
He will cry the whole time I try to cook dinner and go crazy until it is time to eat.

Brendan has to see the show

More crying at the gate

“He’s really mad now!” says Brendan, pretending that he has been the perfect angel all day

Arms up, wiggle them around, arms down, wiggle them around….

The bad part about teaching babies to tear paper for fun is when they find other important pieces of paper.

Brendan has his procedure tomorrow and it is going to be a LONG day. We have to drive to the hospital during rush hour. I really really hope that everything goes smoothly!

I don’t remember most of what I intended to write about today, I know there were several things. Oh well! I should make notes!

For a Monday, it was pretty smooth. Brendan only took a 25 minute nap so any kind of break time for me was lost. Trevor slept 2.5hrs! We owe a huge huge huge thanks to our friend Mike who spent the majority of the afternoon on our roof and the rest of it chasing down parts for our A/C unit. It has been heating and cooling OK, but it has been doing these funky cycles and making odd sounds. Thanks, Mike!

Trevor had a good morning that started with fresh strawberries. He LOVES his berries!

I don’t know if he is singing in to the brush like a microphone or if he is just going to eat it.

Brendan had another great day. I thought this toy was heavy, but he thinks he will just relocate it.

“It wasn’t me”

“Just turn around, it won’t tip over again”

Brendan is getting stronger and stronger. He really loves to have us work with him on his standing, he is very excited when we all make a big deal about it. He is less thrilled to work on his crawling, but he is getting better bit by bit.

And another day is behind us. I can’t believe February is almost gone!

I didn’t use the camera much today. Trevor and I did all our grocery shopping this morning and got home just in time for lunch. While he ate, I scoured the inside of the fridge (yuck!!) and then put groceries away.
Bill mowed the lawns and had to go pick up a truck full of stuff to go to the dump. It was go go go go!
While we were in the grocery store, an older Asian woman (non english speaking) suddenly walks up to me waving something in my face and asking something that sounded urgent. She startled me and when I was able to focus on what she was holding, I saw a carton of Activia Prune Yogurt. (I didn’t know there was such a thing!) She kept repeating the same thing but I simply could not understand, I just nodded and shrugged and walked on. As I got further away, it finally clicked that she was asking me if it was blueberry. Someone in her household is going to be both disappointed and very regular.

Talk about service, someone got an easy chair snack tray this afternoon.

Brendan was in a great mood today. He was so silly and eager to play. (And lounge)

I knew I was short pictures, so I tried to capture some Trevor

But he just makes his escape through the “Mommy Tunnel”