Twins???

With the girls being so close in age, we were prepared with the idea that we would often be asked "are they twins?" However, this was something we were expecting when they were two and three years old at the earliest.

We have been asked before if they are twins, however the person doing the asking is usually under the age of eight or the drunk man I encountered one day. Although I suspect he may have been asking, not because he thought that they were close in age, but rather he wanted to make sure there really were two kids in the stroller and that he wasn't seeing double.

However, when we were on vacation last week, we were asked several times a day if the girls were twins. I don't think people truly thought they were twins, but rather they couldn't believe they were more than a year apart, so they were quite confused. I think they were trying to figure out the true story.

This past week I went to the Farmer's Market with some friends and a gentleman asked me if they were twins. The wife hit him in the arm and said "Fred, they are not twins, can't you see that"...with an eye roll of course. I thought that was funny.

While they are not twins, they have been a double blessing to us. While we were on vacation, we went out for Chicago-style pizza. Any fan of this kind pizza knows it takes forever to make, so we had an hour wait before we got our food. Both girls behaved perfectly. I couldn't have asked for anything more. An older couple was seated next to us and got a kick out of both girls. They paid lots of attention to them after they were seated, in fact the wife got after the husband for distracting Amelia while Brian was trying to feed her. We weren't going to complain as he was keeping the girls entertained. On their way out, they stopped off at our tables to tell us how truly lucky we were to have such beautiful girls. I think I just might have to say "ditto".