Horrible at updating, but a good long update!

As anyone knows... I am horrible with updating! I have been asked to update by many people, and a comment that I got just recently (Thank you Trish, I would love to see your boys btw), I am updating. After having their tubes put in... I was not too sure that I saw a difference in their hearing... But then again, I went on a mi$$ion trip to Cub@ a week after they had their surgery, so I didn't have much to gauge it by. (BTW you will be able to go to my blog soon to hear about my endeavors there) So, the twins vocabulary as of late

(Nate learning from his Baby Einstein cards)
Flower, choo choo(together with the pull of his arm like he is tugging at the whistle and it is blowing out of their very own mouths), car, moo, sheep, jeep, cat, piggy, monkey, duck, chicken, dog dog, woof, star, yo gabba gabba (in a sense, it is very mumbbled, but it getting there), Bubby, MAIL! (blues clues), blues clues (can you tell it is one of their favs?), uh oh, oh no, go, ball, button, belly, nose, bye, HI!, Dora, Katie (my best friend/ their sitter/ Aunt), box, frog, goodness... I can't keep up! WAIT! The best. Momma, and Dadda! They say it to us, and point to us! Call us, it is AMAZING!!! Such a great thing to hear. When your children are almost 21 months and they haven't said anything, and then all of a sudden within a week, their vocabulary has exploded. Speechless, I am at least... They aren't anymore. God is good all of the time! So after that... here are some updated pictures of their crazieness!


Nathaniel playing in the water being squirted by Momma

Aiden getting ready to slurp up the water from the oh so clean black top :X

Notice Nate is under Aiden. This was the 2nd night of toddler beds... Nate decided he wanted to clomb out of his and once I got back from the trip we got them toddler beds.... they still have not taken to them very well. But every night I go back in to tuck them in after they have finaly fallen asleep, and it never fails I find them ontop, beside, or next to one another.

It made me giggle that Nate's leg was hanging off the bed (this was tonight 7/26)

Again Nate, with the leg hanging off the bed, I swear he is like me!

This is what they do on a day to day basis. Not this very thing, but they help out hair turn grey faster than I think it needs to. But for the little babies that were in the plastic boxes, for the babies that were not supposed to make it, for the babies whom people all over the world prayed for, fasted for. They are worth every grey hair we will every recieve.

7 months

Tomorrow the boys will be 7 months old. We were at the high risk clinic on Thursday the 1st and the doctors are not happy with their growth. Aiden weighs 13.4 lbs. and is 22 inches long and his head is 15.5 inches. Nathaniel is 14.3 lbs, he is 23 inches long and his head is 16.1 inches. They are both less than 3rd percentile for their age. If we go by their gestational age which is 4 months, Aiden is 11th % for weight, less than 3rd % for height and head circumference, and Nate is 25th % for weight, less than 3rd for height, and 10th % for head circumference. Our boys are tiny. Yes they seem big since we know what they started out at, but they are very small. The doctors have started the boys on protein powder in their bottles to help bulk them up. We have the ok to start them on solids. We can feed the solids with a bottle or we can feed them by spoon and then if they are still hungry we can give them a bottle. Aiden's urine sodium is still very very low from having his NEC surgery. He is now on a double dose of his sodium a day to help get that up. On the 13th we will have 3 specialist come in the house to evaluate the boys. They will tell us whether or not they need PT, OT, or speech therapy. I am kind of excited to see the out come of the tests, but in other ways I am kind of scared. I know that they are behind, but I am not too sure how to help them with this. So that is where these people will step in. I will as always keep everyone posted.