8 Months and counting....

Today the boys are 8 month's and 5 days old... I am kind of bad at updating this huh? The boys still have the fear of spoons... Nate more so than Aiden. It turns into an all out scream fest when you put a spoon to Nate's mouth. Poor kid. Their bottle intake has decreased significantly. They were both eating 8 ounces every 3 hours... now Nate eats 6 (if he is lucky) and Aiden eats 4-5 ounces. Not sure if it is the heat or what... but they have plateaued in their growth that is for sure. Amanda, our early intervention lady is amazing! She as well has a set of twins, but they are almost 2. She also has a son who is almost 4 who was born at 27 weeks. So she knows what we have been through on both sides. When she was here last Friday we laughed, we cried, and we shared some great stories. I have to admit, I was a little worried at first about how I would feel about some stranger coming into our home telling me how delayed my boys are. But she has been there, she knows the pain and the hurt you feel when your children are 8 months old, and still can not get around the way a real 8 month old child would. They doesn't scoot, crawl, sit up, hold their own bottle, they can't use his pincer grasp, they don't pull themselves to a standing position, they doesn't roll from back to front, and they surly don't know their names. My children are behind. Some of those "milestones" I have mentioned are 5 month milestones. Gestationally they are 5 months and 4 days old. Our boys are delayed more than we thought. Amanda has referred them to ot, pt, and speech therapy. A relief since we didn't think that they would get referred and we would have to pay for it out of pocket, but in the same sigh... it is depressing. Our boys are delayed, but to us they are perfect to us in every little way.