Our Pea Pod: Developmental Check Up

We had our developmental appointment this week to make sure that the babies are on track since they were preemies. It's so funny to think back to the appointments where the would sit quietly in their stroller waiting their turn to "play" with the doctor and compare it to what goes on now in the room! This time they were ALL OVER THE PLACE! Forget saying that "anything a child can get into"...for ours it's "anything that an adult can get into" our children did! I felt bad for the doctor because she wasn't the normal doctor for us so I'm sure she was a bit overwhelmed! The final results were that they are functioning at a 22-month olds gross motor skills and a 16-month olds fine motor skills. She wasn't too concerned about the fine motor skills because technically they're 16 months old corrected age, since they were born 2 months early. Things she said for us to work on though include stacking blocks, coloring and puzzles. Here goes testing our patience (and theirs) I guess!

Overall, she thought they looked great! Ava is a little more advanced than the boys when it comes to talking but she said that they're still young so give until 2 years before we should be concerned. The boys are talking but more of that mumbling talk (or is that typical of a man, haha)! We have to get their hearing tested again because a lot of times when babies are in the NICU for a period of time the antibiotics that they receive can cause hearing loss and fluid build up. I think the only hearing issues our three have is selective hearing though!

So here are some funny photos/video of what they've been up to lately!