Tomorrow, my babies turn three. This is mind-blowing in any number of ways, of course. But looking back on this blog, which I started back when they were six months old, one thing that really strikes me is how much the “twin thing” has changed over the last three years. The last 12 months, the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Preschoolers'
2 years, 11 months, 30 days
August 2nd, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 13 Comments
Tags: Celebrations · Fraternal · Other people · Parenting Twins · Preschoolers · Singletons
A slow farewell
June 21st, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 12 Comments
Oh, my friends, it is truly a sad day in my house. I have come to acknowledge a painful fact. The nap is on its way out. *sob* OK, it’s not gone yet. And, to be more specific, it’s my son who seems to be getting ready to drop it. Over the last few weeks, [...]
Tags: Napping · Preschoolers · Sleep · Toddlers
separating multiples in the classroom
June 15th, 2010 by Jen from Diagnosis: Urine · 17 Comments
We’re officially on summer break, here. Unfortunately, summer is fraught with challenges for me and my twins. Things like swimming lessons and bike rides and water and parades and fireworks… Sigh. Today the boys begin Safety Town, a pre-kindergarten program designed to teach safety basics like crossing the street, learning one’s address and phone number, [...]
Tags: Development · Other people · Parenting Twins · Preschoolers · Relationships · School-Age
Twin B, my sweet P, is coming into his own
May 18th, 2010 by Jen from Diagnosis: Urine · 7 Comments
Thanks for all your support and encouragement following my last post, about my twins’ speech issues. Flying high with the momentum provided by your comments, I followed up with the intervention team, and we had a meeting on Friday. The news was good: the boys’ speech errors are age-appropriate, but they will be part of [...]
Tags: Behavior · Development · Preschoolers
Miss Manners
May 11th, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 19 Comments
You can call me crazy, you can call me old-fashioned. But I say it’s never too early to teach your kids good manners. I don’t run some kind of courtesy boot-camp at my house. I don’t believe children should be seen and not heard (OK, sometimes I’d like to believe that). My kids can be [...]
Tags: Behavior · Preschoolers · Toddlers
speech therapy, paperwork, denial, and a plea for advice
May 4th, 2010 by Jen from Diagnosis: Urine · 8 Comments
My boys have just eight more days of preschool until summer break, and they’ll start kindergarten in September, right after their 6th birthday. This hit me like a punch in the gut last week – not because my babies are growing up, but because I cannot understand most of what they say without significant effort, [...]
Tags: Development · Identical · Preschoolers · Twin Types
The Machine Age
April 6th, 2010 by Jen from Diagnosis: Urine · 7 Comments
The weather has been lovely here, and the children have had spring break. My boys know how to pump on a swing, but still beg for a “starting push” to provide a bit of momentum. As I pushed my 3-year-old and provided intermittent starting pushes for the boys, I realized this will probably be the [...]
Tags: Development · Mommy Issues · Other people · Parenting Twins · Preschoolers
Unlike Any Other
April 5th, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 9 Comments
If there’s anything I’ve learned in the last two months, it is this simple truth: potty training is completely unlike all previous transitions of baby- and toddler-hood. The moms of older kids are just shaking their heads and chuckling at me right now, and that’s just fine. We all come to these realizations in our [...]
Tags: Behavior · Development · Preschoolers · Toddlers · potty training
Back Two the Future: “Which one is the evil twin?”
February 16th, 2010 by Jen from Diagnosis: Urine · 15 Comments
Have you been asked this? I’m sure we’ve all gotten variations of the question. “Who is more outgoing?” “Is one good and one bad?” “What are their personalities like?” Once someone asked me which one was my favorite. I don’t mind the questions, especially the “rude” ones, because usually I can joke about it and [...]
Tags: Behavior · Other people · Preschoolers
Learning how to play with my kids
February 15th, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 4 Comments
You’d think that, at 2.5, I’d know how to play with my children. And to a large extent, of course, I do. But the truth is that I spend a large portion of the day coordinating, shuttling, refereeing, and then getting out of the way when they’re actually playing nicely with one another. We go [...]
Tags: Fraternal · Preschoolers · Toddlers · potty training

