2 MONTH DR. APPOINTMENT

On Monday we had our first "big" visit to the doctor's office. The girls were getting their first round of vaccinations and K had a big list of questions for the doctor (just so you can get an accurate picture: K has been fixating on this for weeks and brought a 2 page typed list of questions and our color-coded, indexed 3 ring binder where we record all food, poop, and comments....you need to know how much A ate on Dec 15 at 3pm, no problem...of course we really have not needed this, but we certainly have it)
here are the girls looking adorable in their identifying onesies (and yes we did the letters based on names and not birth order)...they wore this to their first birthday party of their twin friends Carter and Olivia.

The only "issue" that seemed to be valid on K's long list was Audrey's belly-button. Thanks to Google search, we had already diagnosed the problem but it was nice to have confirmation from the Doctor. So little Audrey has an umbilical hernia. as you can see, Brooke is shocked by the news that Audrey has a hernia!

Who knew that babies could even get hernias, but alas it is fairly common in preemies with low-birth weights (and you will recall that she was under 4 lbs and 5 weeks early). So basically the connective tissue there just did not close and so "stuff" pokes through. But there really is nothing that is done as it is supposed to heal on its own by the time she is 2 - 4 years old. The only downside is that she will look funny at the beach this summer.

They got 4 shots and an oral vaccine. Overall they did very well...thanks in part to a nurse who moved at the speed of lightning. There was some screaming (it should not be funny, but A got so worked up that her face was all red and her mouth was open to cry and scream but no sound was coming out...I wish I had a video of it). They were fine by the time we left the office. All day yesterday they were pretty tired after that... either from the exertion of screaming or from the baby tylenol that they took.

So here are their vital stats (we were pretty close with our estimations using our own scale and tape measure)
Audrey:
height: 20.75 in which is the 3rd percentile
head: 36.7 cm which is the 10th percentile
weight: 10 lb 8 oz which is the 50th percentile

Brooke:
height: 22.5 in which is the 50th percentile
head: 38.5 cm which is the 50th percentile
weight: 12 lb 11 oz which is the 90th percentile

so as you can see our girls' bones are growing proportionately as their heads and heights match, but they are just little piggies...which is starting to give K a good arm workout!
did I mention that the girls are getting chunky?