Summer is here!

I can not tell you how excited we are that summer is finally here!  I went back to work for three weeks, which was a good amount of time, but I'm so glad to be able to spend the entire summer with the boys!  While I was back at work, we were so lucky to have BOTH of the boys' grandmas take care of them!  They're not spoiled at all;)!

For Memorial Day weekend, we headed to the Lake to hang out with family.  This was the first out of town (non-medical) trip we've taken with the babies.  Things went pretty smoothly!  It was so much fun to have the boys around their cousins Hap and George (not like any of them paid attention to each other, but it was cute nonetheless).

Thee boys have been doing really well since being home.  We've settled into a pretty nice routine which still involves quite a bit of sleep.  The boys will turn 5 months on Friday, but their adjusted age will be about 9 weeks.  At their 4 month appointment, the doctor was very impressed with the boys' progress.  For their adjusted ages, Lawson was in the 75th percentile for height and 25th percentile for weight!  Sutton was in the 50th for both categories!  The doctor used the word "awesome" to describe how they were doing.  Now, at 5 months, both boys are around 10 pounds!

(Lawson on top, Sutton on bottom)

We do have one health concern for Sutton.  The week before I went back to work, I decided to call the doctor's office because I had always noticed that Sutton breathed faster than Lawson.  It was not a new development or anything, I was just curious.  They had me bring him to the office that day and took an X-ray.  We immediately called our doctors over in the NICU to just ask what they thought.  Bless their hearts- they actually let us bring Sutton in to see them!  Reason number 75435678 why we love them so much.  Off topic- we still call them at least once a week to ask some question- Dr. O'Connor jokes that we purchased the long-term package by having 27 weekers.  Anyway, the neonatologist and pediatrician looked at the X-ray together and deemed that Sutton has a sequestration in one of his lungs.  Essentially, 1/5 of one of his lungs isn't inflating.  We are seeing a pulmonologist in Kansas City on Thursday.  We are hoping that there won't be any surgery involved, but the doctors have warned us that it is definitely a possibility.  We are not worrying ourselves yet.  Both boys are thriving and that's more than we could have hoped for 5 months ago.  God has been so good to these babies and we know he will continue to do what is best for them.

Thanks for checking in!