We got a lot of things accomplished today, mostly cleaning and organizing. It is amazing how quickly the house can descend into chaos if you don’t keep up your game.

Trevor slept until 8:30am!! (and then skipped napping again) One day he will get back on schedule.

To Infinity and Beyond!!! Brendan still loves his Buzz, and of course he loves all things robots.

Here are his robots on the wall

Trevor loves crashing and smashing and tipping and throwing. He learned that if he turns the toy box on its side that it rocks and tips over.

He was tumbling all over the place, jumping to his chairs, doing somersaults

If you see the bruise between his eyes in the pictures tomorrow, this is how it happened.

We are trying to find the right way to discipline his destructiveness without trying to over-tame his energy. He ends up in timeout often now and it kind of works. When Mommy counts to 3, it gets his attention.
When Trevor does something naughty and then gets in trouble, guess who likes to go and do the exact same thing and then look at us with a dare? Brendan is certainly testing his boundaries too. If I try the count-to-three thing with him, he just laughs. We have to find a punishment that works for him before he knows that “3” means consequence.

Trouble!!!!!!

The biggest thing to be excited about today was Trevor sleeping until 7:30am. I guess the outing payed off after all. Then, of course, he did not take a nap today!!

Brendan had a little fun this morning. Because he has been doing so well on his cap with no oxygen, Bill took him along on an errand to Lowes.

Shopping is thirsty business. I love how he folds his legs in his seat!

While Brendan was gone, Trevor did a little remodeling in Brendan’s corner. The two year old name letters that came from the hospital are going bye-bye. Brendan has a new favorite thing – ROBOTS! So we got him some stick up robots like the ones we put up in Trevor’s room.

It was 108 this afternoon, but we had to get the boys out to run. Bill put up the big awning to make more shade and then we got out the sprinkler

Trevor is serious about his claim to this bubble mower. He is very possessive of it.

He doesn’t like to share the shopping cart either!

Almost!!!! He got the pedals moving today, but he needs to be just a bit longer!

Funny how the night I get the most sleep, I am having the most struggle to stay awake to type!

Today totally backfired on me. Brendan was up really early and still has symptoms of a little cold. I hope it is going away and not something new coming. We just can’t shake the bug around here. Trevor “slept in” until almost 6:30am. I decided to try to burn some of his energy and take him on a big outing.

All of the best splash pads around open at 10am. Ridiculous! By 10am, we are sealed up in the air conditioning and hiding from the sun. We found only one pad that opened at 7am and we had the whole thing to ourselves.

As we were leaving, a bunch of other kids and families were showing up, but the sun was getting brutal and it was already 97 degrees.

All fresh and dry, we stopped at the playground near the house. Trevor is improving his hanging and he is getting really good at swinging across monkey bars with a little support. It won’t be long before he will do it all by himself.

He was excited about a big grill spatula someone left and he pretended to cook pine cones.

I had to remind him that this was the only set of dry clothes I had packed, the park sprinklers came on.

A little duck chasing

The big backfire is that Trevor did not sleep one wink of a nap. I could not believe it. So I had an early riser that was physically exhausted, he was a walking meltdown the rest of the day. I did not get to take many pictures of Brendan because I was dealing with Trevor.
Brendan had a good day. He spent many hours without oxygen, went on a big bike ride with his nurse, and watched “Frozen” a couple of times.
He was lounging tonight while I put Trevor to bed early.

We have nothing cool planned for the weekend, just chores, projects and hopefully some SLEEP!