Twin advice...

Note to anyone who has twin babies, may be having twins or if you ever have twins down the road... At some point in time you WILL need pictures of them separately, for a school project...like in third grade, which seems so far away, but all of a sudden they are in third grade and you are awake at 11:30 at night going through hundreds of pictures of them and you can't find any individual pictures. Did I think they were one person? Exasperated.

Potty Training Two, Part II

Ok, so I said I wasn't all gung ho to potty train and that I wasn't yet ready to give up my babies. That was before yesterday when the twins spotted Dora and Diego underwear at Target and were all gung ho to wear them! I went full throttle, bought the underwear and have tried day one of REAL potty training. Has gone so, so. They've both gone on the potty and both had accidents (but the not so bad kind). I caved after the accidents and put pull ups back on both. We'll start over again tomorrow morning and see how it goes.

Potty Training Two

I have to admit-I haven't tried very hard to potty train the twins. I think there are two reasons for this: (1) potty training one child can be a chore-the idea of trying to train two is just overwhelming to me and (2) they are my last and I'm not in a hurry to get out of the baby phase. My husband, on the other hand, has been good about getting them to go "potty" before they get into the bathtub or get dressed in the morning. Brendan has been really good with this and actually looks forward to getting on the potty at these times (I do not follow through during the day, though). Audrey not so much. She is just so opposite of Caroline-who was potty trained, through the night, at 20 months.

This seems to be changing and, therefore, puts the pressure on me to step it up during the day when daddy is not around. Earlier in the week, during the day, both twins asked to go potty. Audrey asked, then Brendan followed. I was shocked! Then tonight, after they were all in their pj's, Audrey told me she had to go potty, took off her jammies and pull up and hopped on! Brendan followed right after again!

I am so proud of them. My thought has been that it will come in time whether I push or not, but now I will have to put my energy into asking during the day-even at the risk of losing my babies. :-(