9 Months Old!!!

Caroline is on the top and Abby is on the bottom. I haven't posted about my beautiful nieces in awhile, so I thought I would tonight. On the 6th, they turned 9 months old!!! It's crazy to think that just 9 months ago, they were struggling to survive and now they are happy, playful little girls!!! As most of you know, they were born 2.5 months prematurely. The doctors usually say that premature babies will be "caught up" developmentally sometime in the first 18 months. And usually it's expected well after a year. On their 9 month day, they went to see an occupational therapist who evaluated them and declared that developmentally they were in fact 9 month olds!!!! What a blessing!!! God has been so faithful and so good to our family. The twins have definately brought me closer with my sister and brother-in-law, and although babies have a way of doing that when their birth is "normal", I think their dramatic entrance into the world has played a huge part in that! I am so much more thankful for every day, and I have such a bigger understanding of His mightly power! To see these two girls at a little more than 2.5 lbs fighting to live, and actually beat all of the odds against them in every possible way, is more awe inspiring than anything I think I have experienced thus far in my life. The only reason that I can look at these girls and hold them, and throw them up in the air to make them laugh is by the grace and goodness of God.

Now I may be biased, but I do believe they are the cutest babies I have ever seen!!!