I feel an obligation to post a few pictures of the boys, so here they are. They do not have any idea that anything is different. Trevor just is teaching Brendan how to eat shapes from the shape sorter.

Mmmmm shapes

The boys had a good day, but the rest of us were deeply saddened to learn that Grandpa Jack passed away just before 8am this morning. He shocked everyone last spring when he got kicked out of the hospice home for being too healthy. The doctors had given him just a few days to live! He just kept right on going and amazing everyone with his will to live.
He was a generous, patient, and loving father and grandfather. He has had and will continue to have a huge impact on our lives and the lives of our boys. He will be greatly missed!

I went through a few archives I could find tonight and pulled out a small collection of photos to honor his memory.

Our schedule is changing up a bit. Our day nurse is moving to Tues-Wed instead of Mon-Tues in order to accomodate Bill’s new work from home schedule. So Bill was home working today and it was just me and the boys passing a pretty plain Monday.

Trevor worked on his hammering skills.

It looks like they are playing a complicated game of strategy and concentration!

Brendan’s hammer time

Brendan has Trevor’s favorite truck!

Brendan believes that if you eat your laptop, the knowledge of the whole internet will be absorbed in to your brain. Nom nom nom.

Trevor needs to do a little drilling on his tooth.

Brendan turns a wrench on the Chomp n Clack.

“I am going to turbo charge this clacker so Trevor can go really fast!!”

This video is for Gramma because she loves Brendan’s disapproval face. Brendan DOES NOT LIKE tissue paper and this is the proof. One of his top favorite things is the peek-a-boo forest book though. That makes it better.

The boys are a real joy even when they are super naughty and we had a good day. But there is a dark cloud over the day because Grandpa Jack is very sick today. Aunt Heather’s plane just landed and she and Bill will be going over there shortly, Aunt Jennifer is already there. We hope that he is able to be comfortable and know that his family is around him.

This was a very big milestone day! Brendan got to go to the park! It was unusually cold here so we bundled the boys up in layers and headed out to see if Brendan likes the ducks as much as Trevor does.

Brendan really liked hiding behind the monster mask on his new hoodie!

He can see through it just fine, he is just silly!

Trevor knew where we were the moment we hit the parking lot!

But it turns out, Brendan wants no part of the ducks. They were too much.

He says, “get me out of here!”

Trevor says, “I’ll just eat the extra peas that we brought for the ducks!” (I read that peas were good for the ducks. They liked them but the peas sink. It was actually very entertaining watching the ducks dive for sinking peas!)

Trevor says, “I know what Brendan will like!”

He was interested!

Trevor likes to swing really big and fast!

Brendan was limited by the length of his oxygen line. I think it is cute how Trevor scoots to the front of the seat and dangles straight while Brendan is fully seated in the bucket.

“Is this how I am supposed to do it?”

“Yep, hang straight and swing big!”

“And stick your hand out here?”

Brendan is silly!

Brendan likes pushes from Daddy

We had lots of people, especially kids, say, “oh gosh look at those cute TWINS!!”

Trevor says, “Look! No hands!”

“Wheeeee!”

All packed up and time to walk back to the car. Brendan waves bye-bye!

One more stop at the water to feed the birds. Brendan cried so we didn’t stay long!

As soon as we were in the warm car, Brendan was out cold! He has slept soundly all evening so far. He was worn out! I think he had a great time!

It was so so so good to get out as a whole family and do something fun!