Chew on this

Another week, another full medical dance card for Gwendolyn. In addition to her typical O.T. and P.T. therapy appointments, she had a routine follow-up visit with the plastic surgeon to check the status of her jaw. All turned out normal during the checkup, not counting the fact that Mom was stuck in the waiting room almost two hours past the regularly scheduled appointment time with a pair of fussy babies because the doctor was running late. Ah, the joys of health care.

After the checkup, the doctor asked that Gwendolyn go to radiology so they could get an x-ray of her airway on the off chance that an anomaly there is causing some of her sleep issues. That became a hairy situation as a nurse first had to be found to hold Braelyn outside the x-ray room since Dad was stuck back at work. Being an innocent bystander, they didn't want to risk Brae Bear getting any of those waves in her system. Then, they rolled up a towel and placed it under Gwen’s back as Mom held her shoulders flush against the table so that the tech could get the proper angle needed for this x-ray. True to form, as Gwendolyn cried due to discomfort (who blames her) and uneasiness over the situation, Braelyn was sticking out her tongue and blowing raspberries at passersby. No news back yet on the results of the x-ray but we anticipate that given all the ENT scans of The Gwenner’s airway that have already transpired, there won’t be much out of the ordinary there.

One newsworthy item we forgot to mention is that both Braelyn and Gwendolyn are finally cutting their first tooth. Ironically enough, they are both lower teeth on the opposite side of the jaw from one another. Just another example that the girls are fraternal and not identical twins… And yet while they really are nothing alike, they are each so sweet and lovable in their own unique ways.

As you can see in this entry’s photos, we decided to change things up a little. It seems like every other post lately has a photo of Gwen in some state of slumber and Braelyn acting like a goofball. So, this go-around we decided to swap the traditional roles of the twins. While Gwendolyn gives a quirky, inverted suck on her binky, Braelyn is sawing some serious logs in her photo. We can’t help our bias, but they still each look precious to us!!!