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Chris Brown has been doing more in Miami than reconciling with Rihanna. He's been recording.

E! News has learned exclusively that, in addition to riding a jet ski daily in the waters behind Diddy's manse, where he has been trying to patch things up with his girlfriend following their Grammys eve blowup, Brown has been laying down tracks for a new album.

Brown, 19, has been in Miami for about a week and has been recording late at night at Miami's famed Hit Factory studio. There has been no sign of Rihanna, 21, at any of the sessions.

Meanwhile, despite reports by People and Extra, Brown was not out partying solo Saturday.

Those outlets were among many that claimed Brown was kicking it up in South Beach with Young Jeezy, Reggie Bush and Khloé Kardashian (sister of Bush's girlfriend, Kim).

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Reunited and it feels so good for Britney Spears and her boys.

For the first time in nearly two months, the beleaguered pop star had face-to-face contact with sons Sean Preston and Jayden James, during a Saturday morning, court-monitored visit, sources confirm to E! News.

The boys, who have primarily resided at Federline's home in Tarzana since October, were packed into his gray Dodge Viper truck by a bodyguard and shuttled to Spears' home on the Studio City-Beverly Hills border around 9 a.m.

The visit lasted until noon, at which point the boys were driven back to Federline's, wearing smiles on their faces. 

Aside from Spears and a court-appointed monitor, there were several other key personnel on hand, including: Britney's father, Jamie Spears; Britney's psychiatrist; a Federline security guard; and a lawyer from the Luce Forward law firm, which is handling Britney's conservatorship for Jamie Spears.  

According to an insider, the 26-year-old pop star was not permitted to take the boys, ages two and one, into another room without her dad and psychiatrist watching.

The ground rules for the visitation were hammered out Friday night, by lawyers for Luce Forward and ex-husband Kevin Federline.

"None of this would have happened if Jamie Spears had not been involved. That's for sure," Federline attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan told E! News Friday. "He gets a lot of credit for helping make this happen. But we've worked very hard with the conservator lawyers, as well, to make this all work."

Federline has had sole custody since October, and Spears hadn't seen Sean and Jayden since Jan. 3, after she refused to allow Federline's bodyguard to pick up the boys after one of her monitored visits and ended up under observation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

The troubled songstress was stripped of her visitation privileges and has only been allowed to contact the boys by phone, but even those conversations have been few and far between, sources tell E! News.

Spears is not slated to see the boys tomorrow, according to a source, and plans to stay home and watch the Oscars in the company of her dad and Adnan Ghalib.

With another date looming Tuesday morning in Britney Spears' seemingly unending court docket, her supposed team is ramping up the rhetoric.

At 8:30 a.m., Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon will convene the latest closed-door session in the ongoing custody case between Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline.

Among the orders of business: Just exactly who will represent Spears, now that the firm of Trope and Trope has bailed on the case. Laura Wasser, who was Spears' previous counsel in the case, had been rumored to be coming back, but a source familiar with the case tells E! News that Stacy Phillips is the leading candidate. Phillips represented Tori Spelling, Axl Rose and Bobby Brown in their divorces. In any event, Gordon must sign off on the move first.

Gordon is also scheduled to review the infamous paparazzi footage of Spears running a red light with her children and a court-appointed monitor in the car.

The 26-year-old "Gimme More" warbler, who hasn't seen sons Sean Preston and Jayden James since Jan. 3, is not expected to be present.

Meanwhile, although the next scheduled hearing in Spears' conservatorship case isn't scheduled until Mar. 10, the man who hopes to be her lawyer is lashing out at the court's ruling placing her father Jamie, and a lawyer in charge of her affairs.

"The conservatorship is radically oppressive and unnecessary," says attorney Jon Eardley, who joined the fray last week at the urging of Spears' former manager and confidant Sam Lutfi.

Eardley, who admits to not having met Spears, filed a petition to move the conservatorship to federal court, claiming that the erstwhile Mouseketeer's civil rights were being violated.

Legal experts have told E! News that the chances of the case being transferred are slim.

"In Britney's case, the commissioner revoked her power to retain her own legal counsel," Kevin Whittaker, a San Francisco-based litigation attorney, who's not involved in the Spears case, told E! News last week. "Oftentimes, the conservatee can retain their own legal counsel. This wasn't the case with Britney. So the new attorney's claim to be her legal counsel will be found invalid."

Spears, who has been, in the words of her parents, in the "throes of a mental health crisis," has yet to make any public comments about her supposed new legal eagles.

Nonetheless, Eardley, through spokesman Michael Sands, continues to bang the drum.

Sands tells E! News that while Spears and Eardley haven't met, they have had spoken "Several times" over the last week. The spokesman says Spears instructed Eardley to do "whatever is necessary" to get her father's "sham conservatorship" rescinded.

"When your civil rights are violated, it is no laughing matter," says Sands.

Sands also happens to rep Lutfi, who remains largely out of sight (Paris Hilton parties, notwithstanding) after being targeted by a restraining order by Spears' family.

"Sam is doing real good," says Sands, adding that Lutfi has yet to be served with the restraining order. And, despite rumors to the contrary, Sands says he is not aware of Spears and Lutfi having any contact.

A hearing over the restraining order is set for this Friday.