Health Update

So our babies are shorties!! Who would have guessed. Maybe that NBA career isn't in the cards. I realize that at 9 months heights don't really mean much, but it's funny to me. We just got a recent doctor's update for both of them, and they are happy, healthy, and progressing normally--yippee! They are both 26 inches (his update was at 8 months and hers at 9--go figure). At those same times, he was 17.5 lbs, and she was 15.5 lbs, both of which are at the low range of "average" for 9 months. Of course, twins are often on the lower range anyway (because they are often born before full-term, they're measurements at this young age often correspond more closely to babies who were full term on their actual birth date--make sense? It all evens out by age two--I'm learning a few things!), so we're pretty thrilled. They both are crawling, pulling to stand, waving bye-bye, and saying "Mama." They are calling out to me, too! (Or at least I'll imagine it to be so--they will very soon!)

Oh, and we learned that her given birth name is not Marta. Aaaah, the idiosyncrasies of adoption. It's Martha. We still haven't chosen the names that we will give them.