Best Part of Twins

I'm currently sitting on my couch listening to my girls talk. They watch a lot of cooking shows with my husband and I, so they are talking about their dinner. What's for dinner you ask?? Blue box mac & cheese with some bacon. Yet I'm hearing them talk about the different spices they want to add in, how they made it, the countdown to the "hands in the air" and the judging of their food. This is the best part of twins, when they are in their own world playing and getting along.

These moments are my absolute favorite, when they get along. These two have been by each others sides their entire life (and yes by mine too all except 2 or 3 days). I only knew a handful of twins growing up, and you hear of twin bonds, yet I never KNEW what it was like to have twins and deal with their bond. These two, most of the time, get along so well. They can play all day together and not come to me unless they need food, aren't all parents just there to feed kids some days? Then sometimes I hear the giggles between the two of them and I ask why they are laughing and they can't explain it. Or they try to and their twin language comes out. Yes that is something that exists. Don't attempt to translate it because I can't. Lol!! My twins do not have twin senses. I try and ask them all the time when my husband and one girl go off looking at one end of the store and the other goes with me, if they can use their twin senses to find each other in the store. It never works, maybe one day it will, or maybe it's because they are fraternal twins. I don't know. I've read that twins can feel what the other one is feeling, but that is far from the truth with my girls. Maybe its only an identical twin thing.

No matter how old my girls get, when they both cuddle up with my husband or myself. It instantly brings me back to when they were infants and we were doing everything to get them to fall asleep. The days I have both of them cuddling with me at night, I let them fall asleep on me and they might be sleeping on me for awhile before I move them to their beds. Flip side, I feel weird only having one of them cuddling with me, but at the same time, I love the one on one time that I get. It is something that doesn't happen frequently but I soak it in.

I wish I could explain what it's like to be a twin parent... it's probably the same thing that parents of singletons (yes, those of you who have one baby at a time, you have a "name") can't explain what it's like to someone with multiples. I think any parent can call it a small victory when your kids are getting along and that's what out weighs the fighting, for me at least. It's what I remember the most, it's what I consider the best part of twins.