Because he’s had one more minute to grow

Being a Mom of twins, I could write a daily blog just on the weird and funny comments I get from people regarding the boys. Here are recent highlights….

Two pre-teen girls walked by the boys as they were playing in the courtyard. They oooh-ed and ahhh-ed and asked the usual questions. As they left, one turned to me and said, “You are so lucky to have such a beautiful child.”

This afternoon we rode in an elevator with a Mom and her five and three-year-old boys. All three were talking with my boys and just as we got off the older boy declared, “I like the blue one better!” (Benjamin was wearing a blue coat.) Then the younger one piped up with, “And I like the white one better!”

And it would surprise you how often I have this conversation (we’ll skip past the “Are they twins? How old are they?" prologue)

Stranger: “Which one is older?”

Me (pointing to Benjamin): “This one, by a minute.”

Stranger: “I thought so. He’s bigger.”

It also seems that if you’ve birthed multiple humans at once, your family planning is public fodder. Perfect strangers ask me all the time if we’re planning on having more children. Would they ask that to a Mom who has two children born at different times?

Many a Mile to Go has a few more things to say regarding the comments twins receive.

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Jonah the percussion-boy likes to slap everything, including the back of Benjamin’s head when they are in the stroller. We are working on being “gentle.” As in, “Jonah, be gentle. Stop bashing your bother’s skull to bits.”

I take his hand and use it to softly pat Benjamin’s head. After today’s lesson in patting, Jonah used his right hand to softly pat himself on the back of the head. “Oh good,” I thought, “at least he’s understanding the concept.”

At that moment his left hand shot out to bash Benjamin’s head anew while continuing to softly pat his own.

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To make sure I employed the term “public fodder” correctly above, I did a search for it on the internet. But I misspelled it. There are 68,000 results from Google when you search for “pubic fodder.”

Comments

[kailani]

I can't even imagine having twins! I have a hard time with one baby at a time! You should check out Be A Good Dad. He has twins and writes some interesting posts about them. I'm sure you could relate!