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We made it back from North Carolina yesterday without a peep from either of them in the backseat!  6 hours on the road, with an hour stop for a bottle and lunch and we were home safe and sound before dark.  They were wonderful.

Today, we were off to the pediatrician for a weight check and their RSV shots.  Despite us backing off calories and spacing their feeds, Andrew STILL gained WAY too much!  He is up to 9.5 pounds!  Paige only gained two ounces (like she was supposed to) and weighs in at 8.9 pounds.  Part of the problem is that we are adding rice cereal to his bottles to try to help keep the formula down so that we can stop some of his reflux meds.  This is clearly adding more calories than we anticipated!  Dr. Arnold talked to him very seriously about his triple chins and "man boobs!!!" (we won't tell him this when he's older:))  My poor guy is going to have to be even more hungry.  We are going to back off more on the calories, try to space even further, and even add extra water to each bottle.  Free water will help with his horrible constipation, but it will also hopefully help him to feel more full without the crazy calories.  That's the problem -- he's still hungry even with what he's getting now!  They said growth restricted babies ate all the time....I guess they weren't kidding!!

So we will return in two weeks with just Andrew for a weight check.  Not to make sure he is gaining weight....but to make sure he still isn't gaining TOO much!  I never thought we'd have this problem a month ago!  But as Dr. Arnold said, the preemie formulas are still very new and its hard to balance between enough protein to catch up and for development, and not too much fat to make super chubby babies.

Paige, on the other hand, is slimming down a bit and looks wonderful.  They are both starting to smile more and more each day, but Paige is truly grinning from ear to ear and is starting to be really interactive.  Its SO fun!  She also had her first real tears today!  It was after her shot and the poor girl was so mad, but it was adorable:)

Tomorrow, we will celebrate their three month birthday!  In honor of this, we think we might try to put them in their cribs tonight for the first time.  Daddy has been ready for them to leave our room for weeks. I have not:)  So we are taking baby steps and they are napping this afternoon upstairs to ease me into this idea....

Andrew in his big boy bed!

And Paige in her's!

And here we're hanging out together!

We'll let you know how our first night apart goes tomorrow...wish us luck!