Baking with Brendan and Trevor

We had three spotty soft bananas and Trevor asked if we could bake a cake, so we made muffins. (I think he wanted more birthday cake)

First we peeled bananas.

Mashed bananas…

Trevor liked chasing the egg yoke around in the bag

Then add the sugar

And mix

Stir dry ingredients

Together

Get some flour on your thumb and run away

Tasting vanilla extract

We cut the corner of the bag and squeeze it into the muffin pan. (Too messy to do and photo at the same time). Then the baking inspectors come and verify everything is good and sign off on the permits.

These would we cuter with clean magnifying glasses. 🙂

Trevor really likes baking and loved the batter, but then he hated the muffins when they were done. I thought they were really yummy! Brendan wore his glasses here and there today, he likes to pull them off.
He didn’t eat the muffins either.

Later the boys made “mac and roni” for dinner and both ate noodles.

We were in need of some family time and a little adventure. We wanted to do a little overnight camping trip, but the weather at our camping site would have been in the low 30’s or colder overnight. We decided yesterday to switch it up and just do a day trip to the Grand Canyon!

The boys were a little fidgety in the car, but they did well. They were happy when we got there!

Zoomed in

We had miles of scenic beauty to take in…

…and they were more interested in the dirt

More dirt!

Oh look, some dirt AND leaves!

Ice cream!

Brendan is modelling the new cap we bought at the gift shop

Oops, he fell asleep right in the middle of his mustard pretzels

I had to make Trevor a little tent to keep the sun out of his eyes

We stopped at a rest stop called “Sunset Point” right at sunset. The sunset was unremarkable though.

We tried throughout the day to get Brendan to wear his glasses. He will happily wear them without the strap but when they start to slide, he takes them off. I got him to wear the strap tonight by bribing him with sips of beer!! Then he enjoyed a nice book.

The boys got to bed pretty late, so they had better sleep in!!!

I have a ton of stuff today. The summer sizzle is finally over and it is a huge relief. Getting outside is a powerful tool for managing these boys myself. This morning we scouted playgrounds. We played at two and did a drive-by on two more.

This was today’s favorite, the only thing it was lacking was shade.

Race to the top

This is one of my new favorite pictures of Brendan! He was peeking through the floor of the tornado slide.

My little daredevil

We had the whole place to ourselves once the maintenance crew pulled away. They keep this place spotless, and the sand was even all raked and pretty

Trevor pointed at the big boulder and said, “That rock is from Arizona” 😀 😀

They loved the bouncy bridge and kept coming back to it.

The video quality on this is poor, but there is a lot to love in this video! Silly boys!

We picked up Brendan’s glasses today. I will apologize now to future Brendan. We had to pick function over fashion. These are called Miraflex glasses. They are super malleable, safe and durable. They are hard to break and were highly recommended by his eye doctor. The color and shape selection was scary.

Brendan wanted no part of them initially. I had to go next door and get him a Sprite at McD’s to distract him.

“This isn’t frozen coke!”

Bill tried to talk him in to wearing them.

He definitely seems to notice the difference in his vision when he has them on. His expressions are pretty funny. But he HATES the strap that will hold them in place. Without it, the glasses just slide off too easily. He would wear them for a few minutes at a time and then pull them off. It will just take some getting used to.

He is still my adorable silly Brendan

Trevor was happy it was spaghetti night

The spaghetti aftermath

After-bath, even Batman needs glasses.

This will be a big adjustment for the whole family getting used to his new look and taking care of his glasses. We have a little adventure prepared for tomorrow!