6 month update

You know.... people always say "they grow up so fast", but it does not really mean anything until you actually have kids. It is hard to believe that Peyton and Olivia are 6 months old but it is true!
Last Thursday (March 10th) we went to the Doctor for their 6 month check up and we had some good news and some bad news. It was a very stressful day for Mom and Dad because they had to get 3 shots each and blood drawn from their big toe.
I will start with the good!
Peyton weighs 13 lbs 10 oz (29%)and he is 24.8 inches long(50%)
Olivia weighs 12 lbs 14 oz (37%) and she is 24 inches long (44%)

The doctor told us that we can go ahead a start feeding them solid foods starting with cereal for 5 days for 5 days and then we can try a new food for 5 days and so on. The babies loved the cereal and would actually cry between bites because we could not shovel it in fast enough! Today we tried a new food - SWEET POTATOS - The loved them too! We have one new highchair - thanks to uncle Kris and Aunt Amber! But we need to get another one! It is hard to feed the babies in a bouncy seat.

The Bad News!
This month was not a good month! We got bad news or potentially bad news on both babies.
The doctor said that he wanted to get x-rays of Peytons head because he felt like it was still long and he was worried that the skull had fused together already which we assumed that if it did fuse we would have to have surgery to fix it. We went to get the x-rays done that day and got results back the following evening. It was hard to watch Peyton cry during the x-rays but the technicians were great and very loving. We wished we could bribe him with something to make everything better but Peyton did good and finally fell asleep on the way home. Doc said that Peytons head was good and that his head may always be a little long but once his hair grows no one will notice it. We have always known that his head was long but it was caused by some of the tubing that he had to have when he was born - it is soooo much better than it was!
Olivia's bad news - When the doc was listening to her heart he said that he heard a murmur. Since he had not heard it in the past he said that he wanted to wait until their 9 month visit before doing anything. He said that since she was still low on iron in her blood her heart is having to pump faster which could cause more noises than usual so it might be nothing. He compared it to a river saying that when a river is flowing normal it is quiet but when it floods it is very loud. Hopefully it is nothing but we have to wait!

Tracy and I are not stressing about the news at this point because there is nothing we can do. We will just have to wait and see what happens at their 9 month check up which is on June 21st.

I have been trying to add pictures of their first solid foods but for some reason I can not get it to work... I will try to add them later tonight!