Let The Games Begin

Our twins are 10 months, 23 days, 2 hours and 12 minutes old, and up until now have not noticed one another. Today all that changed. I was upstairs gathering laundry when I heard Sweetie laughing her hysterical belly laugh, a laugh she usually reserves just for Peanut and his antics. Over and over I heard her laughing, eventually I noticed Little Red was laughing as well....Sweetie laugh, Red laugh, Sweetie laugh, Red laugh, over and over. I crept down the stairs and peeked into the baby cage. Red was playing "hide and seek" with Sweetie. They were sitting facing each other, and Little Red had a blanket in his hands he would lift it to cover his head and face and pull it away quickly making a silly face at her, sending Sweetie into hysterical laughing, in turn making Little Red laugh himself. Again and again I watched them play this little game, both enjoying it as much as the other.

It was everything I imagined should happen with twins, but had yet to witness with our double duo. I was so happy, the twins were loving each other and interacting....all was well. I went back upstairs to finish with the laundry and not 20 minutes later heard Sweetie again....this time screaming, I again wandered downstairs to find the twins interacting, this time in the form of a headlock, Little Red had Sweetie in an actual headlock, and with one arm holding her down the other was banging her little head like a drum, not nice! I pried them apart and calmed Sweetie down reminding her that life with three older brothers would probably not always be easy, but she should try to remember that those headlocks come with the occasional happy game of "hide and seek".