YAY!

Alex is T - 2 weeks (and 30 minutes) till his helmet comes off for good... YAY!!!

Nothing new with us, just doing lots of playing. Nate is doing LOTS of walking and we are both enjoying this beauituful weather. Mommy has the windows open and we love hearing the birds.

Alex had a follow up eye appointment yesterday and Dr. W. say his eyes are now "dead on" and she is thrilled with how he is doing. YAY... in two weeks he will be a new man!!!!!

There is talk that we may go to the farm or a park this weekend... we will definitely post pictures.

pictures and video

Here is one of the videos and some of the photos taken the day of surgery. We are doing really well! Nothing new to update you on!





Alex checking out his ID Band


Alex pre-surgery


Nate not wanting to sit still



Nate with the relaxing stuff pre-surgery


Nate pre-relaxing stuff

surgery update take 2

Hey Everyone... Alex here... got some news

So everything was going really well until Mommy took off my diaper for his sponge bath and noticed his stent was coming out. So she called Dr. Voit's office and the nurse said to make sure I am still peeing and come in in the morning and they will fix it... however if I don't pee because the stent is blocking it we have to go to the ER, so Mommy called Daddy to update him and then went to bath me. When she took off my diaper afterwards (she left it on and just washed my hair) it was completely out.... the good news is it definitely won't block my pee now.... however first think in the morning we are off to Downtown Baltimore for it to get unstitched from me. Mommy is super excited!!!!

After all that funess.... someone.... and I am not naming names..... but it wasn't me... decided it would be fun to climb onto the shelves in our play area. Luckily Mommy and Daddy were watching and pulled Nate.... I mean the person who shall remain nameless off the shelves and immediately took the shelves out of the play area. However this does mean we now have access to all 3 windows to bang on endlessly!!!

Alright... I am exhausted! Night!!!

Surgery? What Surgery?

WE'RE BAAAAACK!!!!!

We woke up this morning bright and early... since we had been asleep since about 5pm. So around 5am we were ready to play. We slept through the night with no pain killers or feedings needed. Today we are 100% back to our old selves, running around, eating, playing with everything. You wouldn't even know yesterday we had surgery. We are still getting children's Motrin every 6 hours... but we haven had the good stuff with the codine in it since yesterday. Alex's eyes are looking great... minus looking slightly demonic because they are bloody, he is focusing better with both eyes together. YAY!!!!!! Once he gets his helmet off in 3 weeks he will be a new man! (And it will be harder to tell us apart!)

We will post the pictures and video soon. We are just too busy making up for missing out on playing yesterday.

Nana and Grandad were here for 2 days and just left and tomorrow Grandma and Grandpap come. We are going to get lots of loving this week.

Time for sponge baths!!!!!

Surgery Update

Hi It's the twins's Mommy! They are currently sleeping and doing well. Surgeries went really well.

Alex went first and had his eye surgery... which was not laser surgery as previously mentioned... but actual cutting of eye muscles. We can already see a difference. His penis surgery went really well and already looks much better. He had trouble waking up from surgery and not wanting to drink juice, however after about 2 hours I got the brilliant idea of trying to get him to drink from a cup.. SUCCESS! He just wanted to show the nurses what a big boy he was.

Nate just had penis surgery and didn't take very long at all. He came out of surgery and slept for about 45 minutes and woke up ready to go. Guzzled 9ozs of juice and was ready to hit the ground running (he did all this while we were still trying to get Alex to wake up and drink!)

They came home and slept, woke up and played for a bit and are sleeping again. They are on lots of pain killers and we will probably keep them like that through tomorrow just to make sure. We have appointments next week to see both doctors and get surgeries checked out.

We have pictures and some hillarious videos of Nate on the pre-op medicine (he looks stoned) that I will post later.

Thanks for everyone's well wishes and happy thoughts/prayers today.

surgery

Just got back from seeing Dr Landrum. We are a go for surgery tomorrow.

Very excited though because Nana and Grandad are coming up to visit and help out with the surgery and we haven't seen them in almost a month... YAY!!!!!!!!! Then this weekend Grandma and Grandpap are coming to help out..... we don't know what this surgery thing is... but people come to visit us = YAY!!!!!!

nap time

BIG NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On thursday we went to Alex's helmet appointment and we have some big news to report. On October 8th at 3pm the helmet is coming off for good!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!! Alex will have had it on for about 10 months by the time he gets it off.... that's over half of his life. Needless to say Mommy and Daddy are very excited. Mommy can't wait to cuddle Alex without the helmet whenever she wants to.

Grandma and Great Aunt Helen came to visit us yesterday. They took tons of pictures so once Mommy gets them she will post a couple. We had a lot of fun!

Today we are going to watch the Virginia Tech Hokies play Georgia Tech on TV... GO HOKIES!!!! However we kind of have to root for GTech too because Uncle Stephen is a senior there. But Daddy, Aunt Courtney, Uncle Todd, and most of Mommy's friends went there, so Mommy is an honorary Hokie.. especially since her colleges didn't have football teams.

Hopefully all goes well and we will still have our surgery on Wed. We have a doctors appointment on Tues. so we will keep you updated.

16 months

We are 16 months today and..... it's also Grandma's birthday today! Happy Birthday Grandma!

We had a blast at Nana's and Grandad's. We had an eye appointment this morning and Nate's eyes are fabulous however Alex's is going to need laser eye surgery to finish fixing his lazy eye.. that will happen at the exact same time as his other surgery scheduled for next month.

We are busy packing up our toys because tonight we head to the beach.

We will do a huge update once we get settled at the beach house and post lots of pictures!!

Big Update

So first and foremost. Our highlight this week was going back to the NICU where we spent 4 months hanging out. We visited our favorite nurses, Miss Celeste and Miss Kelly. We got there and neither of our nurses were in the NICU, Miss Kelly was getting lunch and Miss Celeste was helping another baby on a different floor. So we hung out with some of our other favorite nurses and waited. Finally Miss Kelly made it back and we got to climb all over her and play with her badge. We were there for about 40 minutes and no sign of Miss Celeste and we were getting hungry and tired. So we decided to head out and come back another day to visit with Miss Celeste. We were leaving and got to the elevator just as the doors were closing.. so we had to wait for it to come back. We were there a good couple minutes waiting.. but wouldn't you know it... Miss Celeste stepped off the elevator. So back into the NICU we went to spend a few minutes with all the nurses again. We had so much fun and Mommy took a few pictures of us.

Miss Celeste with her hands full


Miss Celeste holding Nate and a very tan Miss Kelly holding Alex



We have been to a bunch of doctors this week. So we will do a brief recap.

Tuesday we went back to High Risk Follow Up at the hospital so they could see how far we have come since our NICU days. We got to play with things while the doctor, her assistant and 3 med students looked on. We got to play with blocks, cups, crayons (Which we immediately tried to eat... and they were immediately taken away). We showed them our awesome crawling skills and found things they were covering with cloth. Nate almost took out a med student. He slipped by the 6 adults in the room and pulled on a cord and a small fan came flying off a shelf and just barely missed a med student. Nate is developing like a normal 12 month old baby... which is what old we should have been if we hadn't decided to arrive early. Alex is a little bit behind.. but no one seems worried... because its normal for twins to develop differently.

Wed. Alex got his 3rd new helmet. We don't know how long he will have to wear it... it looks just like his other 2 helmets.

We just got back from seeing Dr. Voit who is our surgeon. We had surgery in January to repair our hyperspasia and cordees. Alex's cordee is all better but he still has a hole under his man parts and that is apparently where most of his pee-pee comes out from... neat trick... but not good.. and Nate's cordee needs just a little fine tuning to make it straighter. So we both are going back in for surgery on our man parts on Wed. Sept 17. We really have no idea what that means because we weren't really paying attention we were flirting with the Dr's Assistant... she was funny.

We are exhausted.. so its time for our nap. Mommy is taking us on errand runs when we get up and then Grandma and Grandpap are coming in for the weekend. YAY!!!!!!!