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Entries Tagged as 'Twin Types'

We attend the Twins Days Festival, and I fail to adequately twin it up

August 17th, 2010 by Jen from Diagnosis: Urine · 15 Comments

I’ve found that I mentally separate moms of twins into two categories. On one hand are the TWIN MOMS, who are really into having twins. They wear the t-shirts, have the bumper stickers, their kids always match, etc. On the other hand are the twin moms. Lower case. They are the ones who were always [...]

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Tags: Activities · Behavior · Celebrations · Fraternal · Identical · Mommy Issues · Other people · Parenting Twins · Relationships · Singletons · Twin Types

Who’s who? The big brother edition

August 14th, 2010 by jenna · 8 Comments

It has been interesting to watch our son get to know his little sisters.  From the beginning figuring out which baby goes with which name has been a challenge.  In the hospital (age 27 months), he would introduce them as S and OtherBaby.  S was a familiar name to him because a girl at the [...]

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Tags: Identical · Singletons

2 years, 11 months, 30 days

August 2nd, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 13 Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: Celebrations · Fraternal · Other people · Parenting Twins · Preschoolers · Singletons

Twin connections

July 23rd, 2010 by jenna · 7 Comments

Our identical twin girls are now 18 months old, and they have just recently started to show signs of the special twin connection or bond everyone talks so much about.  Most of the time they are either doing their own things or competing for attention. But, every now and then they’ll show that they are [...]

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Tags: Identical · Relationships · Toddlers

Guest Post: Review and Giveaway – One and the Same

July 5th, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 20 Comments

Hello, dear HDYDI readers!  We have a special treat for you today.  A guest post from the super-awesome twin mom and blogger, Sadia, of Double the Fun.  Sadia has given us a very thoughtful review of One and the Same, by Abigail Pogrebin.  Even better still, the author is letting us give away a signed [...]

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Tags: Famous Twins · Identical · Mommy Issues · Parenting Twins · Relationships · Twins in the news

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, [...]

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Tags: Development · Identical · Preschoolers · Twin Types

But they’re the same age, so they should be doing the same things

March 26th, 2010 by jenna · 12 Comments

When you have two (or more) babies who are the same age, it can be hard not to compare them.  For the first 9 months of their lives our girls were very similar in temperament.  There were a few differences, but generally the behaved very much alike.  And, just when we thought we had a [...]

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Tags: Development · Identical · Parenting Twins · Toddlers

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 [...]

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Tags: Fraternal · Preschoolers · Toddlers · potty training

Compensation

January 4th, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 12 Comments

As we sent our daughter into time-out last night, for who knows what offense, my husband made a comment to me. “Do you notice that we almost never put them in time-out at the same time?” And it’s true.  Very seldom do they both behave poorly enough at the same time to warrant simultaneous time-outs. [...]

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Tags: Behavior · Fraternal · Toddlers

How do you help other people tell your multiples apart?

September 25th, 2009 by jenna · 18 Comments

Last weekend, we were at a family wedding and some other related family events. Of course, everyone wanted to know which baby was which.  This is a common question since we have identical twin girls, who look very much alike. Friday night, one baby was wearing a pink outfit, and I knew she’d have a [...]

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Tags: Family · Identical · Other people