I had the boys all to myself today while Bill volunteered at a local non-profit that provides meals for the homeless, a group event organized every year by his employer.

The boys were very good to me today, I thought for a moment that while I slept, someone had come and traded out my sneaky, silly, trouble-finding, high-drama babies with well behaved ones. Trevor slept 12hrs straight, no wake-ups at all and he still took a 2hr nap today!

They stayed in jammies late and just played after breakfast.

Lame attempt to block Trevor from peril. (Wish it was that easy)

Since I had to stay with Brendan, Trevor got a living room bath this morning. He loved it. He loves any bath.

Brendan did a 180 today for the speech therapist. He was all about playing with green beans and making a total mess. He even showed her how he will take a bite.

“What? Green beans are better than carrots!”

“I am just going to pull this as soon as you walk away!”

The good behavior lasted most of the day. Trevor got a little cranky in the evening. His latest thing is that he likes to bend over backwards upside down. Then he tried it just sitting on the floor himself and he bonked his head. He has to learn the hard way I guess. But we have to hold him carefully because he will just throw back randomly. I am trying to break him of that.

Brendan says, “Don’t make me make the face again”

Trevor likes to lie down on Brendan’s floor pad, and tonight Brendan decided he needed a back rub.

“Ok, you are done, where’s my tip?”

Brendan’s sats have been hanging a bit low today, his oxygen is turned back up and then some. We aren’t sure what is up there. Everything else is great and he is in a good mood. We will have to see how he does overnight.

Oops, we thought that today was a lazy day with no appointments, no therapists, no events.. but we forgot we had an appointment at 3:30pm today to get Brendan the first of five of his RSV vaccinations. Bill remembered it at 3:12pm and we scrambled to get the boys in the car and go. Fortunately it was really quick and we were home without too much mess.
Trevor just hung out and explored the van while Bill took Brendan in to the doctor.

Trevor slept almost through the night, he was up at 2:30am for about a half hour. Then he slept until 8:30am! But then the whole day gets out of whack and he ended up having just shy of an hour of nap the whole day. By dinner time, he was so done, he would just put his head down anywhere!!

But he refused to sleep!

The boys did have a chance to video chat with Gramma today. They were both silly for that.
Brendan was having a blast.

Then Trevor dropped in!

And almost got chomped!

Other than getting the shot, Brendan had a nice easy day of rest and play. He is getting a break before weaning commences again.
Trevor had a ton of play today too, he is so spoiled!! I firmly believe that to make a baby instantly happy, all you have to do is give a baby something perilous. I let Trevor have his scooter by himself. He is proving he can get off of it without wipeouts now! Getting big!

There is a lot of significance about today, and I will probably forget some of the things I wanted to mention. First, happy birthday to Grandaddy/aka trainsdad! We hope train fest was a great success this year and all went smoothly.

Today also marks the anniversary of a very special day last year. It is the day that little Trevor came home from the hospital!! Our first night with a newborn was something else, that seems like a lifetime ago. Here’s just a few shots from that day in 2011:

And here is my little t now!

“You’ve had your picture now. See ya folks!”

“I am outta here!”

It was actually a pretty nice morning. The boys both slept well and were in a good mood. Brendan woke up and had to play all of his turns in Words With Friends.

He caught up on the blog too, he has to keep tabs on his brother.

He sorted his barrel of toys

Trevor played in the toy area, he did not spend the whole morning trying to get where he did not belong. They sat and played together peacefully for almost an hour. I thought I must be in the wrong house.
Since the kitchen was a little chilly and Trevor’s reach is getting too long, he gets baths in the big boy tub. He had a very long playtime bath today with the bubble machine and everything.

The afternoon was not as smooth. Brendan had enough of Trevor stealing his toys. Note that this is not really a crying Brendan, this is the “I am really mad at Trevor and I am going to act out my meltdown” face.

We won’t even talk about the “Lake of Poop” incident that required a complete bedding change.

The evening wasn’t so bad. We were all relaxing after dinner and the boys were playing. Usually when Trevor goes to get in his jammies, he stops to get a milk bone for the dogs. I guess the dogs were just done with waiting for him because Eins (65lb, 3 legged dog) decides to enter the closed baby jail by leaping up on to the back of the couch!!!!
He perched there precariously long enough for me to say, “WTF!?!?” and then he jumped in to the room. My jaw hung open. He has never done anything like that. Trevor thought it was hysterical!

I did some grocery shopping tonight after the boys were in bed. It was weird going to the store without Trevor!
I hope they sleep well tonight!