Movin’ and Shakin’ Redux & Twinny Stuff

Well, after over four years of having separate bedrooms, the boys are back together again – sharing the same bedroom that they shared as babies. Over four years ago we gave them separate rooms primarily as a last ditch desperate effort to try to get them to go to sleep at night (from the time they were about 18 months old until we separated them at 2.5 years old bedtime was like a crazy-sleepover-party-with-your-BFF… a.k.a. NIGHTMARE for us parents— blog post from when we made the big move to separate bedrooms found here [click!]). Separate bedrooms worked great for ending our bedtime battles. And there were many great aspects of having K & O each have their own space. However, for the past 2+ years they have been insisting on sleeping together every single night. Which, obviously, sort of defeats the whole point of separate bedrooms. At this point they are pretty great about going right to sleep, and even though it is still a nightly slumber party with their best friend, our bedtimes have been relatively painless for the past couple of years. And so, when they started talking about sharing a room again, it seemed to only make sense to go ahead and let them. And so, last week, we made the big move. A lot of movin’ and shakin’ (and one utterly exhausted mama who stayed up way too late way too many nights getting the move accomplished), but the result is very cute matching twin beds, two happy twin boys, and their original bedroom is once again their shared room. K & O continue to be closer than I believe any non-twin could ever imagine existing with another human being. While they are – for sure— each unique individuals with unique quirks, traits, strengths, weaknesses, and separate identities, they are also so enmeshed and entwined with each other that it is virtually impossible to wrap my mind around it. I know that all twins are interesting, but I truly believe that because of K & O’s early history they are especially twinny. If there were a rating scale of twins’ twinny-ness, I’m sure K & O would be way off the chart on the “super twinny” end of the spectrum. They still finish each other’s sentences, read each other’s minds, crack each other up for no reason comprehensible to anyone but the two of them, and insist on dressing in identical matching outfits whenever they can possibly manage to get away with it. They also drive each other nuts sometimes, tackle/wrestle each other like there is no tomorrow, defend each other like you wouldn’t believe, and have each other’s backs 24 x 7. When they aren’t making me a crazy person, they are incredibly fascinating to stand back and witness – they are Twins (with a captial “T”), in all their glory. And, like I’ve said many times before, twins are very, very interesting to raise.