Wordless Weekend

By the way mom we hate our thumb splints

So we received the boys thumb splints on Saturday the 22nd, but they didn't seem to be the right ones. I thought that they were not supposed to have velcro on them. When I had emailed the company, they told me that since we have to have the smaller size, they have to have velcro. So on Monday the 24th, Kyle and I put the boys in their new thumb splints. I got stares from them at first, and then the screaming started. It lasted for about an hour while they were in their cribs. We put them on them when it was time for them to go down for a nap, hoping that they would stay on longer and they wouldn't mess with them as much. Oh boy were they up set. Every look they gave me the rest of they day was as if to say "By the way mom, we hate our thumb splints.".

At first it was just the stares....

And then they quitely sat down and started to pout

And then the full blown crying came in. They love me :)

Leg braces and hand braces with twins?? OH MY!!

So when we were at PT on Friday Kayla (our PT), with the help of another more season PT (Amy) came to the conclusion that both boys will need braces for their feet/ankles. The company they are going to use from what I understand is Cascade. Both boys left feet turn inward when they walk (Nate is the only one walking on his own, Aiden can only take 3-4 steps and then he falls due to his left foot tripping him, which is the same thing that eventually stops Nate). A lot of the turning in has to do with their ankles, and some of the turning in has to do with their big toes. They also have a problem with walking on their tip toes, which is doing more harm than good on their ankles (I wish I could of been as good on my toes as Aiden when I was in dance!). So since their toes are turning in, not only will they be wearing the brace that goes from their toes all the way up to their knee, they will also have what is called a toe strap. So we will also have to purchase the special socks to go with the braces since the boys can't wear regular socks they will have to wear the Toe Socks. But the whole process is going to take some time. The letter to be approved has been sent off to our pediatrician, and then he will approve it (He already said he would), and then it gets sent off to the insurance company for them to approve what they are going to pay for, and then once we get that all settled they have to do the casting on the boys so they get custom fitted for their braces, and then it takes about 2-3 weeks to get the braces in. So we are thinking that we will get the braces sometime after Christmas.
So along with this, back in June OT said that both boys needed thumb splints because they have been keeping their thumbs in (it is called an indwelling thumb and it is a neurological disorder). It posses a problem when they pick things up, crawl, clap, etc. So we ordered thumb splints from Joe Cool. BAD IDEA. These were the cheapest things I have EVER seen in my life, and we could of made them here at home. So we have now ordered their new splints from Beniks and we should be getting them any day now. So The boys will be wearing them all night while they sleep, and they will also be wearing them during nap times, and some of the time while playing that way it stretches the webbing between their thumbs and pointer finger. Hopefully they won't have to wear the beniks for long, but we will see. So as soon as they get their new gear I will let everyone know how things are going. Here is a sneak peak at what the Beniks will look like and what the leg braces will kind of look like (but much more manly lol), but keep in mind the leg brae will have a toe strap and the top part will go all the way over their toes almost like a cast.

Featured

Once again we have been featured in the wonderful Cindy's blog this week. Cindy is the one who takes our beautiful pictures. Please stop by her blog and take a look.

Fall Pictures with CRT

If you would like to see more pictures from our shoot with Cindy, here are the two links that have most of them on it. I hope you enjoy :)

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=79948&l=ea959&id=505570165

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=80614&l=df19d&id=505570165

Our little A-Monster

I had not really been looking forward to Aiden's dentist appt today. His bottom teeth came in normal, pretty pearly white. But his top 4 teeth have came in yellow and now are deteriorating. The pediatrician was pretty confused. It is almost like we have fed him sweets and pop for 40 years and never brushed his teeth. But they came in this way and every time we give him something too hard to eat, another small chip sloughs off of his poor little teeth. I know that his baby teeth are just placeholders, but I don't want him to be "that kid" that gets made fun of because his teeth "look differnt". Well at our visit to Children's Main Campus we found out that our poor little guy will be getting surgery on his teeth in about a year. They will be doing crowns to help with the sensitivity. Until then we are going to baby his teeth. The dentist said stop filtering the water we use for bottles so he can get the fluoride, and he also wrote a script for an extra strength fluoride tooth gel that we need to use on his teeth right before bed. If his sensitivity gets worse, then we can get semi permanent crowns until his teeth grow in a little more, but they don't want to have to put him under more than once. So prayers that we can "baby" his teeth for another year and wait until he is 2 and then we can get this taken care of.

A visit with Grandpa

So Sunday morning Kyle got a call and he slept through it, and it went to voice mail. He actually got a few calls all the way up until about 2:30 p.m. that went to voice mail. But once he got up, he checked his messages, and in shock he looked at me and said "My Dad called me and he is going to be in town for the week." This was strange because Kyle hasn't talked to him in over 2 years. Well we had sent him a Christmas card last year like we did everyone else (the one with the boys in their stockings while they were still in NICU being all tiny and sicky) and we didn't get a response back. Well we sent him a wedding announcement (like we did everyone else), and he called. So he was going to be in town this week for training for work so Kyle set it up for us to meet at TGI Fridays to have dinner with him last night, and we showed up first. His dad walked in a couple of seconds later, and said "Who are these guys?". He said it a couple of more times and we were not sure what he meant, but come to find out he was being serious, he had no idea who the twins were! He didn't get the damn Christmas card!!! So he had no freaking idea that he had three grandson's!! He thought he only had Adam! So he was a bit taken by this surprise! So we set down and told him their journey of everything that has happened with them, and thank goodness I brought their albums so he could see pictures! He was very overwhelmed. But he kept saying he was happy to have 3 grandsons. We are not sure where it will lead, but the boys, all three of them got to meet their grandpa.