Nothing too exciting today, we are always grateful for the ‘uneventful’ days.

We don’t have any sweet potatoes in the house to try as Gramma suggested, but we will have to pick some up on our next shopping trip. There wasn’t a whole lot of selection of baby food. So I decided to try the baggie of “banana blueberry” and see what happened. Trevor can’t have the bananas so it wasn’t going to get used.

Brendan made several “this is tart!” faces but accepted bites surprisingly well considering he usually rejects sweet tastes.

Trevor decided to eat his chicken salad sandwich with a spoon.

“hmmm, Trevor, you are doing it wrong”

Trevor decided to give most of his sandwich to the dogs anyway.

Brendan wants Kieran to include this in his essay: flash this angelic smile and you will get away with anything you want!

“Hey, bro, are you going to finish that?” says Trevor as he snatched the bag of fruit away from Brendan.

Brendan says, “oh no, Trevor is eating bananas. Now he is going to go bananas!”

(Brendan is actually the one that is up late and refusing to sleep!)

Since Trevor just mailed Gramma her Christmas presents, he was allowed to open a present from her that we have been holding hostage in the closet. There were a few pieces we had to pull out and keep aside, but otherwise, he was able to add to his tool collection in his workbench. He was captivated with the new stuff for hours, even before we opened it!

“The boys” are excited to announce that they have influenced yet another aunt to blog about their adorable cousins. The blog went live today at http://projectbat.com/thegirls/
We are all excited about pictures and updates from them! A permanent link is going on the side bar with the other cutie cousin blog.

Babies were in better moods today. Brendan is still drooling like a leaky water filter, maybe I need to install a Leak Frog on his chin. Trevor slept through the night and took a good nap today.

Brendan is now tasked with sitting in his high chair more consistently while Trevor is eating meals. He got to play in peas today.

He was not as receptive to peas and he is to green beans.

I don’t like peas either, Brendan!

Trevor doesn’t get what the fuss is about, he just cleans his tray.

He says, “Brendan, you need to work on your avoidance stretches”

Tuesdays are for chores, chores, and chores. We did laundry, grocery shopping, and a trip to the post office. Brendan had the house to himself and all the toys he could ever want, and yet he insists on dismantling his suction machine.

Trevor sent a package to his cousin, Kieran. He included a copy of the essay he was working on titled, “The Seven Secrets to Highly Effective Naughtiness”.

The practices outlined in his essay are part of the reason why we also just mailed Gramma her Christmas presents today.
We hope that Gramma is feeling OK after oral surgery this morning, and that she isn’t drooling like Brendan!

Stupid Mondays!!! It was one of those days where I was ready for it to be over at 10am. I am so tired.
It started out this morning at 3:30am when the water sensor “Leak Frogs” under our kitchen sink starting alarming. Our RO filter system cracked in one of filter canisters and it was spraying a fine stream of water. Bill got up and took care of it all.
Then Trevor got up at 6:00am in a rage. He would not go back to sleep but Brendan was still sleeping so I didn’t want to take him out to the living room. He sat in bed with me and watched Bambi quietly on TV for a while until his normal breakfast time.

There must be a secret tooth calendar somewhere I don’t know about. Both Brendan and Trevor are cutting two molars at the same time and they are making it well known that it doesn’t feel good. Brendan has been a fountain of drool and he keeps shoving his fingers in his mouth to rub the sore gums but he ends up gagging himself and throwing up big globs of drool.
Trevor was just a whining crabby mess today! I could not keep him happy. Their high anxiety day just wore me out so fast.

I tried to settle them with Yo Gabba Gabba but it only worked for a short time.

Brendan claims the big box, Trevor gets the drawer.

I am working with Trevor to practice using utensils to self feed. He is pretty good at scooping with a spoon, although he likes to just pick up the puree with his hand and shove it in his mouth!

He like to stab his bites of bagel and cream cheese. He is better at getting that in his mouth.

He prefers the fast way of eating with hands! Forks and purees don’t really work.

Brendan played in the jungle while Trevor ate lunch. He did eat 5-6 bites of green beans again today!

Trevor was just so cranky that I decided to take him around the block. It gave him an outing and Brendan a little peace. It was a little cold though so I had to wrap him up!

I am super sleepy now, Brendan is wide awake and Trevor went to bed. Hopefully he sleeps in tomorrow!