Meera’s friends Cameron and Natalie are twins. They came over for a playdate a few weeks ago. They are sweet, nice, fun girls and the threesome had a lot of fun. (I also could not get over how well-mannered, polite, and centered these two girls are — a major testament to their parents! Raising twins is hard, and this mom and dad is doing a great job!). A highlight of the playdate was “playdate popcorn” (our traditional playdate snack) — and these three girls ate the entire bowl in no-time-flat.
Watching the three of them together made me think a lot about what it must be for other families when Kyle and Owen go for a playdate with a singleton. Twins are something really special, and different, and challenging. We’ve had twins over to play with Kyle and Owen, but this was our first playdate with twins who came over to play with Meera. It was striking to me how Meera interacts so naturally with them — for Meera, as a younger sibling of twins, twinship seems to be something she organically understands, in an authentic way that even seems foreign to me. Playing with twins is its own special category of play (we know that all too well, as a family with twins ourselves), but for Meera it seemed almost effortless. It was interesting for me to witness.
It was so fun to see these three girls play together.
Sounds like a lot of fun and so interesting!
– Kate
My tween was really good friends with identical twins. We had just moved into the neighborhood, the twins lost their grandmother who had raised them from birth and we lost my young (8yrs old) SIL around the same time. They bonded over girl stuff and the loss of family. It was different to watch. How do you become friend with two people who share everything? My daughter loved it. Sadly their friendship fell victim to the middle school “slump” but it was interesting to observe. I never did learn to tell them apart. LOL.
As a mom of a girl I always appreciate girls who are well mannered and grounded (no mean girl stuff allowed at our house)