Well, it's been a while since I've posted! Time has flown again and William and Aaron are in 4th grade now and doing great. They're sweet and smart boys with big (and different) personalities. William is a super caring people-pleaser who works hard and will be prepared for real life someday. He wants to do, and does, anything we are doing, from making dinner to fixing cars. Aaron is a detail-oriented and chatty future engineer who loves Legos and Star Wars and especially the two of those combined.
Health updates: They really have no major lasting effects from prematurity and there hasn't been much to update in that respect. Since the last post, William did start patching his left eye for two hours a day to help with the strabismus and he has stopped as of January. We've had multiple opinions and the strabismus is not a good candidate for surgery. Right now his vision is 20/25 with glasses on, which will, unfortunately, prevent his future military pilot goals but ultimately shouldn't have an impact on his daily life. Both boys are in bifocals now and want contacts - we have an appointment next month to try them. Hopefully it works out as I think they will be better for sports.
We don't share a lot of daily life details on social media - we mainly use it to share pictures of the kids. I had started this blog to share updates about the boys due to their early birth and all of the medical issues - without many medical updates, there hasn't really been anything newsworthy to post.
So, why am I posting now??? Because William wants me to post! He knows his birth story and wanted to read the blog. He started reading it a while ago but hadn't finished it - he has spent his free time over the past week reading the blog posts from beginning to end. Tonight when it was time to read for bedtime, I found him with the computer on his lap, blog pulled up - and writing his own post. He found the edit button and started to update it himself! I let him finish what he was writing and Aaron added a bit as well (with William jumping back in). They also figured out how to add pictures from Google. I have not changed a thing from what they wrote below except to block out a face from one of the pictures that Aaron had selected. I let them know I would be adding an intro and then publishing tonight. I hope you get a kick out of their updates like I did :)
Updates from William & Aaron are below!
This is William and I know I have never posted and you might not read this but I want to say thanks for the comments and stuff they're nice and I'm doing fine. That was probably a run-on sentence but who cares. I have to get this approved by mom. Also, she is an awesome mom for doing this blog. I know she was just finding a way to tell people because it was hard for her to tell people. Here's a picture of me and my mom at the Jefferson in Richmond. I can do links.... with the help of mom. Within the past week, I read the entire blog I finished today. We got the game Life from the Easter bunny. I am doing virtual school I go back in the fall. It was Anna's birthday on the 15th, she is 13, wow. My birthday is in 67 days I have to go to bed now bye!!!!
FYI Anna's best friend is right beside Anna
