So we’re still trucking along, sick as could be. I swear, the older the twinzies get, the sickies get way worse and last for way longer. I am overloaded with stress this week and just want to crawl in a hole and sleep since my night sleep is getting cut considerably with sick kids + crazy mama stress. Anyway, enough complaining [for now].
Awwww, don’t they look like BFF’s in this photo?!? So before you read the paragraph below and think I’m smoking crack, just know that little candy bribery goes a LONG way in our house when it comes to picture taking. =)

So tell me great twin Mommies - are your childrens trying to battle it out on a minute by minute basis and CONSTANTLY hitting, pushing, head butting one another or is it just mine?!?!?!? It is non stop and driving me batty. One minute they are playing and then next Heaten has Shenzie in a hair lock pulling while she is pounding him on the head like a cave woman. He head butts her, I move him away and she comes tearing over and wacks him one before I can even blink. I tried letting them just go at it in hopes they would figure it out, but they always come crying to me to kiss their ouchies better. “Nenee do it” is what I hear most of the time from Heaten. I will say Shenzie beats up Heaten far more than he does her. Hahahahah, once again I’m reminded of myself when I was little beating up my older brother Daniel. And now that I think about it I remember us battling from the time I was little until he moved out when I was 14. I remember as a teenager punching him as hard as I could in the jaw and then running like hell to get away. He broke down the door trying to get to me while I cowered in the corner crying. So I suppose this fighting is just natural sibling crap that is going to go on and on and on and on. Any tips from you seasoned pro’s on how to handle the battles. If I put them in time out every time they fought they’d never leave the corner! The fighting usually only happens at home. When we are out at a park, playdate, or preschool they aren’t fighting so maybe we should just move away from here to stop the battling. =)

And now onto the funniest thing thats happened lately. Yesterday morning before Jeff left for work he heard Heaten on the couch crying, “Its too tight, its too tight”. Upon investigation Jeff found that Heatens undies were too tight due to his morning woody and since Heaten has NO idea what was going on, only that his undies were too tight he was crying and pulling at himself. Hahahahahah, poor little dude has a life time of too tight undies to look foward too!!!!

March 3rd, 2010 at 3:38 pm
He is going to be MAD when he reads this when he is 12. Or when potential girlfriends or his friends read this. Or when Shenzie reads this and teases him about it!!!
The “too tight” bit reminded me of an episode of “Just Shoot Me”, where David Cross played Elliot’s brother, “Slow Donny” and he told Maya his pants were too tight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzJw0_UzM-s&NR=1
(@ 1:34)
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:37 pm
chicken pot chicken pot chicken pot piiiieeee
mad props @ slow donny
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Holy crap, I’m happy I have two girls.
March 4th, 2010 at 7:51 am
My boys fight a lot but I also put them in time out whenever they physically fight. Good thing they are old enough to walk those stairs by themselves because some days, they spend a LOT oftime up there. Also if they get too crazy, sometimes I put them in their own rooms for some quiet play time by themselves. They will happily play for 20 minutes alone then come right back out and fight fight fight.
March 4th, 2010 at 8:45 am
LOL - you made my Thursday a.m. with the too tight undies….ahahahahahaha. I’m not a twin mom but I think one difference for you is that you have a boy and a girl twin. We can let boys slug out a little can’t we
But you hate to tell your son to go ahead and whollop his sister =) I’m laughing as I’m typing this because me, too, remembers the day that I beat up on the brothers!! Good luck.
March 4th, 2010 at 10:35 am
Oh man, Heaten is going to KILL you someday. I’m literally LOL over here.
My twins are Battle Royale each and every day. I try to compliment them during the rare times where they play nicely together, but it doesn’t seem to make a whit of difference. They are sneaky about the violence too, waiting until I’m not in sight of them to let loose on each other. They also enjoy wrestling, but even though it starts out friendly it always ends up with someone getting hurt. I have a hard time knowing where to draw the line.
March 4th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Oh, that sweet picture!!!! How can I be in love with these 2 darling children I have never even met???
My twin girls fight ALL THE TIME. (LOL, I love how Claudia puts it - Battle Royale). The only time I notice that my girls don’t fight _as much_ is when they are well rested. They are younger than your two (they will be 3 next month), and still nap up to 3 hours during the day and 11 hours at night. I know that you have them in pre-school now though so that’s not much help. But I’m sure it’s worse right now since they are sick. Maybe more time apart from each other? Or one-on-one time with you and Jeff? Don’t forget that the next stage is just around the corner - you’ll weather this stage, don’t worry! I was in the middle of writing a blog post about how my girls are “expert sharers” when all of a sudden, they started fighting over everything! Hang in there.