Conversations

There is nothing more adorable in my life right now than watching my twins interact with each other and have actual conversations. They have always interacted with each other having never known life without one another and it's just been pure joy watching their relationship. From the time they were born, they would entwine their legs and arms and would not sleep peacefully until they had wiggled themselves together nesting right into each other. There are no words to express just how precious that sight is. When they got a bit older and started looking at each other, it was just to die for and now we have progressed to them having conversations with each other. My twins never created their own language with each other that other twins often do. I wonder if it's because they have older siblings or just because it's something that mine didn't happen to do. Both of them have been talking for quite some time with S having more clarity and proficiency but C holding his own quite well even if we can't always understand him. A few key interactions between them recently are standing out:

- I took only S to Costco with me a couple of weeks back and we were about half way through the store when he looked at the empty seat next to him, patted it and said "Gric! Meer!" Which means "C, come here!" He proceeded to talk about and call to C throughout the rest of our trip.

- We were all coming down the steps the other morning. My hands were full so I wasn't carrying a babe and C did not like that at all. I was trying to coax him down and S turned to him and said "Gric, top creamin'!" Which means "C, stop screaming!" You tell him brother!

- C got a pretzel and wanted to share with S and was yelling "Babo! wan petzul?" which means "S! Want a pretzel?" I told him that S was outside and that he should go give it to him which he did, yelling the whole time "Babo! Wan petzul?"

- One of their first conversations was when they were playing up in the back of our yard. There's a little hill and a fence with foliage between so for a little one it feels like you're being a grand adventurer. Both babes were up there playing and practicing their walking-down-a-hill skill. Tim called to them and S came out, looked at daddy, turned and went back up to find C and said, "Go. Dada. Bu-bye." while ushering him down the hill.

It's just so darn cute and there are more and more of these conversations happening every day. I love to see the relationship and the connection that they have with each other. It's amazing and it's really nice to keep those things in mind when we're having a rough day and I have the inevitable thought that some of this stuff would be so much easier if there was only one of them. I'm sure I'm not the first mom of multiples to have that thought but it always comes with a side of guilt for thinking it in the first place. But in the end, there's nothing like having twins and I feel so incredibly blessed to have this experience.