One year check-up

Taylor & Sutton had their one year check-up on Monday and they are doing just wonderfully. Taylor weighs 21 lbs and Sutton weighs 20lbs. They are both 30 inches long and Sutton's head is only 1/4" bigger than Taylor's. Sure looks bigger! So, they are just the same size I guess they are just built a little differently. They are in the 50th percentile for weight and the 75th percentile for height. (That means that half the kids their age are the same weight and 75% are the same height.)

They can pretty much eat whatever they want now with the exeption of nuts (peanuts and peanut butter especially) and shellfish. If you wait until 2 years old to introduce these foods it cuts way down on the chance for allergies to these things. I want so badly to give them a good ole' PB&J sandwich but we'll have to wait. Their friend, Caden, has peanut allergies and that is bad stuff! We want to avoid that at any cost. Plus, they don't know what they're missing anyway.

The doc told us to go ahead and start them on whole milk and ween off the formula (did that 2 weeks ago), he told us to start them on sippy cups and get them off the bottle (did that 2 months ago), he told us we could turn their carseats around to face forward (did that 6 weeks ago)...so we are all caught up!

He said if he didn't have the paperwork to show that they were preemies he would never guess that they were born so early and that they are doing just great.