Twins: They're a Pair of Individuals

Wednesday night I came back from a class and the twins ambushed me at the door.

Baby Boy wanted me to give him and his toy horsies a bath, and Baby Girl just seemed to want to me to hold her.

So I started getting them ready for a bath, and then Baby Girl had a total meltdown. Apparently she was too tired for a bath and wanted to go straight to bed. Which was weird, because usually she loves taking a bath.

So I had a momentary struggle with myself. Could I really give Baby Boy a bath by HIMSELF? And put Baby Girl to bed by HERSELF? It required a major shift in my regular thought processes to do this.

This probably sounds like a stupid dilemma, but there it is. Because I'm so used to treating the twins as a unit, it's hard when they want to do two different things. I guess I have trouble remembering they are individuals.

We had this same problem at the mall earlier this week when Baby Boy wanted to ride the new ice-age-themed dinosaur train, and Baby Girl refused because it was too scary.

To be fair to Baby Girl, it was pretty freaking scary. They had life-sized realistic-looking anamatronic dinosaurs waving their fangs and tusks about. There was actually a saber-toothed tiger tearing the neck out of a giant sloth. I'm totally serious about this.

Anyhow, I wasn't going to let Baby Boy ride because Baby Girl didn't want to, but my husband was like, "That's mental! Why shouldn't he get to ride? He's not scared!"

I was thinking, "Maybe he should be scared! Did you SEE that saber-tooth?"

But I realized I should really let the poor kid ride. And he LOVED it! And oddly enough, his sister loved just watching him and waving he went by.

So tonight I let them split up for bedtime, which has never happened before. And it wasn't long before I found out why Baby Girl wanted to go straight to bed.

She threw up on me.

I guess she was waiting for Mommy to come home before she vomited.

Maybe I should feel flattered?

Probably a good thing they don't do EVERYTHING together....