MEMPHIS, Tenn. — In Arlington, the center of the superhero universe is in Trey and Brittaney Stanfield’s backyard.

You’ll find Spiderman and a Power Ranger on a crusade, battling evil and each other.

“They love to fight each other. They love video games, and they love to play,” Trey Stanfield said.

But underneath their masks and costumes reveal the identities of 7-year-old fraternal twin brothers, Tucker and Garrett Stanfield.

These super kids, especially Tucker, have overcome some super health battles that started when they were born premature at just 27 weeks old.

“They were in the danger zone and really had to take care of them,” Brittaney Stanfield.

Garrett weighed two pounds and three ounces. Tucker weighed just more than a pound and fifteen ounces, and faced more problems.

“The next day the NICU staff noticed he had has a small hump on his back when they turned him over,” Brittaney said.

Tucker was transported to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. Doctors discovered he had a spinal abnormality and only one kidney.

Dr. Jeffrey Sawyer is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Le Bonheur.

“It’s a unique situation because he had the challenges of being born premature and a pretty bad spine deformity,” Sawyer said.

It was an emotional time for their mom, Brittaney. It was also before she and her husband, Trey, had met and married, and before he adopted Tucker and Garrett.

“I was a single mother at the time going through a divorce and so. I had my mom helping me and things like that and friends praying,” Brittaney said.

After weeks of care, doctors felt Tucker was strong enough to go home.

Months later, a checkup at Le Bonheur’s Ambulatory Clinic revealed his spinal abnormality was more serious than first thought

“We knew if we didn’t operate he’d have problems with his spinal chord and he could have been paralyzed,” Sawyer said.

At just 10 months old, Tucker underwent a spinal fusion to prevent further bending.

The surgery went well, and Tucker had to wear a tiny camouflage body cast.

Six months later, Tucker’s hump, as he calls it, was holding steady, and he was able to do something he’d never done before.

“We were in Dr. Sawyer’s office and he stood up and I went ‘ah’ and Dr. Sawyer came in and I said, ‘He just stood,'”  Brittaney said.

Tucker was able to stand because of successful surgery at Le Bonheur.

“Le Bonheur is a special place. To have one of the top medical centers in the U.S.  right in our backyard and accessible and part of our community is an outstanding resource,” Sawyer said.

Both Tucker and Garrett are now healthy, and they have baby brother named Deacon.

The Stanfield family credits their faith in God and Le Bonheur, the hospital with a giant heart and stitches from the common thread of exceptional care.

“We feel very blessed,” Trey said.

“I have my children and as healthy as they are because of those resources; God bless Le Bonheur. I feel very blessed.”

Tucker will have another major surgery in a few years to help make further corrections with his spine.