You know how moms always want to get their babies together for a play date, however it ends up being two babies sitting in the same room and playing separately with different toys? That’s basically what it’s like every day when you have twin babies. They are absolutely adorable but have no clue that there is another person who is always there, and who is the perfect age to play with.
But now things are starting to get fun with these two. They are beginning to show interest in one another and to start noticing that they had a sister/friend all along. Last night after dinner they raced, one behind the other, back and forth across the living room and down the hall. It lasted less than 5 minutes, but it was one of the few times I’ve seen twins playing together.
This morning one of them was sitting on the couch, and the other came running towards her, and when she got to the couch they had a little conversation. It sounded a lot like, “Itta-fippa-siss?”, and then, “Sass-goppita!” in response. I’m pretty sure that translates into, “Hey, how did you get on the couch?” and, “Your feet stick to the leather and you can climb up!”, because of course that is how a baby gets onto a leather couch. With this knowledge, the baby on the floor was able to join her twin sister.
The best and most heart-warming twin moment was a few nights ago at bedtime. Some backstory: We’ve had the twins sleeping in the same crib for 15 months, and just recently moved them out of the one crib in our room and into separate cribs in their shared room. Almost every night since, Madeline has been impossible to get to sleep. It has been very frustrating. I feel like we’ve tried everything to help her go to sleep at night and nothing has worked. As a result, both babies have been up until close to 10:00 every night. That’s late for this lame-o, way-too-old-to-party Mommy! Well, last night we were realizing that it was going to be another night of nonstop blood-curding yells from Madeline in their room. Meanwhile Emily was downstairs with the rest of us, waiting for Madeline to stop hollering so she could go to bed. Her little baby body was so tired. She was crying big alligator tears and trying to curl up in her daddy’s arms to go to sleep. We had to put her to bed, even though Madeline’s scream was currently peeling the paint from the walls. And, would you believe, as soon as Emily was put in her crib and the door was shut, Madeline stopped screaming and they both went right to sleep? True story. I think Madeline was just lonely and wanted her sister. Every night since then we’ve put them to bed at the same time and Madeline’s nighttime crying has gone back to normal. Thank goodness!It is amazing to watch two girls grow more each day. Even more special is watching their relationship develop, transforming from a baby play date to a lifelong sister/friend.