A little update

The boys have been keeping us pretty busy these days. They are able to roll over now and are trying to crawl. It is pretty entertaining to watch them try to figure out how to use their arms and legs at the same time, which is still a work in progress. They can roll over with no problem but then they are only able to lift their head up or stick their butts up in the air. When I try and help them they just straighten out like superman. Braylon has figured out he can scoot small distances on his belly but it takes a lot of energy. Both boys get frustrated easily and begin to fuss so we have to limit their time on the floor so it doesn't turn into a full blown fit.
After lots of screaming and crying the boys are finally taking a bottle again. When we brought the boys home from the NICU we really struggled with breastfeeding because they preferred to be fed their breastmilk in a bottle, but actually breastfeeding was really important to me. I was only allowed to breastfeed once or twice a day while they were in the NICU so they developed a strong preference for the bottle. After lots of crying, both me and the boys, and lots of sleepless nights we finally got the breastfeeding thing down. I was so afraid to give them a bottle in fear of sabotaging all of my efforts. I have decided that I am ready to get out for more than four hours at a time now and the babies need to be able to eat so we have been working on bottle feeding again and up until the last couple of days it has been a nightmare.
The boys refuse to take a bottle from me at all so Bryan had to try and there were times the boys got so upset they wouldn't even breastfeed afterwards. After the losing battle we decided it was time to call in the troops.
A developmental specialist has been working with the boys since we have been home so she brought in another therapist to help us out. I'm not really sure what they did different but it has been like night and day. Thank goodness. I thought I was going to have to babies attached to me constantly until they were completely on solids.
Thursday, the boys had a Well Baby Checkup. Kaden weighed 12lbs 7oz and Braylon weighed 14lbs 1oz. They are getting so big. They also got some of their immunizations which made for some crabby babies. They both had fevers and Kaden, I swear, pooped all day long Friday. I would change him and he would fill his diaper again. I felt sorry for them. You could tell they were really feeling under the weather all day Friday.
The doctor said the boys are doing great. He gave us the okay to "expand their horizons" by introducing some solid foods (I cheated a little and gave them some smashed bananas about a week earlier).
They still aren't too sure about solids yet. They tend to gag a lot because they are still learning how to move the food around in their mouths. They don't mind the bananas but they are not too fond of green beans and they especially don't like rice cereal even if I try and mix it in with the food.
We might just have some particular boys on our hands.