Today was developmental testing day at the Special Infant Care Clinic at Duke. Since they are now one year old, they wanted to see how they are coming along and see if any recommendations needed to be made for physical or occupational therapy.
Natalie and Abigail passed with flying colors! "They" (the doctors, testers, etc.) put their adjusted age at 9 months, 9 days. For those of you who are observant and like math, if you subtract 3.5 months from 12 months you get 8.5 months. Or even if you go by their due date of August 20, they would have been 9 months yesterday. Where they get 9 mo,9 days from, I don't know. They have some kind of weird formula they use. Anyway... Regardless, Natalie and Abigail tested at 10 months across the board for their cognitive and motor skill development. (Abby's new cruising trick didn't hurt!) Well, actually Nat tested at 7 month for verbal because she refused to make any real sounds while she was there. But, since we know she can ba-ba-ba and da-da-da, I'm giving her a 10 month rating.
I knew they were doing really well, and wasn't really worried, but it's great to get a stamp of approval. Oh, you can't really fail, BTW. It's not like development is a contest. But, it's one of those things that if your kid is ahead, you take all the credit. If they are behind, you blow it off and insist that averages are just averages. I've decided that since the girls are the spitting image of Ben, they must have gotten their brains from me:-)
Obviously, we won't get any recommendations for any kind of therapy. It's a good problem to have though. They only thing we are "Behind" in, is teeth. They have no teeth. But, hey, averages are averages and it's no big deal. If they don't have teeth by kindergarten, we'll get them pearly, white dentures.
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