A big day for Hailee and Hannah!

This past Friday was Hailee and Hannah's 18 month (adjusted age) developmental assessment at Children's Hospital.  We have been doing these once every 6 months since they were born because of their prematurity.  The therapists and doctors like to keep up with them and make sure they are on track and don't need any type of therapy or assistance to help keep their development where it should be.  I had been anxiously nervous for the past few weeks about this appointment.  As I know they are moving along nicely, I was expecting some sort of speech therapy or some other area that they wouldn't be completely caught up with. 

The appointment was over two hours long.  The girls each worked with a therapist and did lots of different learning activities, fine motor skill work, and other testing to see where exactly they fall on the development scale.  Both girls ended up doing fabulous and both of them graduated from the program!  I was SO HAPPY, to say the least!  When we got their scores from the therapist and doctor, they were all outstanding.  They wanted them to be at the 21 month mark, which is their actual age versus their adjusted age at 18.5 months.  Both professionals agreed that they don't see a reason to have either girl come back for a follow up.  We have some things to watch for at they continue to grow, such as starting to put words together within the next 4 months or so, and that they start to read by about age 5.  As for now though, they are on track.  They have come so far in the past year and a half and they are just amazing!

Spending a morning at Children's really puts things into perspective.  When our baby girls were born, we didn't know where we'd be today.  I am so proud of our two little preemies!  We are so thankful and blessed for the life we have been given and for our beautiful, healthy girls. 

High five in the waiting room!

Ok, that was enough.  Get me out of here!

The girl's graduation certificates :)