November is the March of Dimes prematurity awareness month. It is [ironically] the month my twins were born - 2 months premature. Their due date was Jan. 23, 2002 and they arrived November 24, 2001.
Male Caucasian babies do the absolute worst of all babies when it come to prematurity. It's referred to as Wimpy White Boy Syndrome. My Baby B was no exception.
(That's a preemie diaper drowning him!) But, we were lucky. The NICU (read: angels!) nurses had never seen a faster recovery than Baby B made. He went from not breathing, with underdeveloped lungs, to needing no more help in under 24 hours. That's my boy :)
Baby A came out kicking and screaming, and hasn't stopped since. The nurses nicknamed her Haley's Comet. I called her my Little Firecracker. Both still fit, well.
Hard to believe my little 3 pounders, who spent 3.5 weeks in the hospital eating through tubes in their throats, turned into one year old chubs eventually, but they did...
They also remained bald until they were two. Maybe that's why Baby A hates having hair below her shoulders now. And Baby B loves his mohawk.
It's even harder to believe they are nine years old today! Seriously. Time really does fly.
Happy birthday to the two best things that ever happened to me.
Isn't this the cutest present ever?
The below video cracked me up. I think I have had this exact conversation at least once a week for the past nine years. I've never mentioned tampons, but I'm a little snarkier about the identical question. Seriously. Identical is pretty self explanatory, no? One has a penis. The other does not.
I am also the mother of twins. I'm in a mothers of multiples group. I'm going to share this post with them. Oh, My, I laughed until tears rolled down my eyes from that video. I just thought of a snarky response to "Do twins run in your family?" "Yes, they run all the time. I'm constantly telling them to slow down and walk, especially poolside." So glad your babies have grown to be "big kids" now. They're beautiful and wonderful.
Glad you got a kick out of it, Linda. It sure cracked me up. I was actually never one who got offended by those questions, but the video just nailed the whole twin things so well!
Deniz - Isn't he freaking adorable?! It's a good thing he is...trust me. Two days and he's wearing me out almost as much as chasing around 2 infants did!
Hahaha! "Which one do you like better?" "The one who is not screaming." That's so true ^.^
My twins (boys) were born 5 weeks prematurely. They spent two weeks at the hospital, although twin A could have gone home after a day. Boy B had to be confined in a box for whole three days before I could hold him. That was so difficult (and a huge guilt trip only a twin/triplet/etc-mom can know). They're three years old today, and like your twin A, mine is still kicking with life-force.
Love the video. I met my identical twin stepdaughters when they were 3-1/2 and helped raise them, so I have a little bit of an inside track on twins. Not near as much as if I birthed them, but I'm familiar with the whole "I'm older by 5 minutes" kinda thing.
Their 'twininess' was accentuated by the fact that their mother was also an identical twin.
Twinness concentrated!
Being the stepparent of twins was definitely interesting. They were really good a tag-teaming me when they were little.
And there's nothing like having a twin get in your face when her sister's in trouble. That was completely outside my previous realm of experience - usually siblings are trying to GET each other in trouble!
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I'll watch the clip once I get home as I'm at work (at lunch!).
Have a great thanksgiving! Take care
x
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Twins!! :)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING Tara!! :)
Happy Birthday Twins, identical or not.
Happy Thanksgiving Tara. Have a great weekend.
Happy bday to the Tara Twins, and happy T-Day to you all!
Happy Birthday to the Tara-Twins!
And Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Love,
Lola
LOVE that video. Laughed so hard I nearly choked.
Jai
Glad you got a kick out of it, Linda. It sure cracked me up. I was actually never one who got offended by those questions, but the video just nailed the whole twin things so well!
Thank you, Jai :)
They gave me one to, just by showing up to dinner.
I hope your twins birthday and your thanksgiving was a wonderful as mine was.
Have a great weekend.
......dhole
My twins (boys) were born 5 weeks prematurely. They spent two weeks at the hospital, although twin A could have gone home after a day. Boy B had to be confined in a box for whole three days before I could hold him. That was so difficult (and a huge guilt trip only a twin/triplet/etc-mom can know). They're three years old today, and like your twin A, mine is still kicking with life-force.
Love the video. I met my identical twin stepdaughters when they were 3-1/2 and helped raise them, so I have a little bit of an inside track on twins. Not near as much as if I birthed them, but I'm familiar with the whole "I'm older by 5 minutes" kinda thing.
Their 'twininess' was accentuated by the fact that their mother was also an identical twin.
Twinness concentrated!
Being the stepparent of twins was definitely interesting. They were really good a tag-teaming me when they were little.
And there's nothing like having a twin get in your face when her sister's in trouble. That was completely outside my previous realm of experience - usually siblings are trying to GET each other in trouble!