After 19 months of caring for the munchkins, Ya Ya still struggles with their identity. Most of the time, I'd laugh at her silly mistakes, except once when she gave cold medication to the twin who is well and cheery.
Then, another silly mistake by Ya Ya this morning resulted in a 30 minute hunt for a pair of Green underpants. Xuan would normally get her morning bath first simply because she loves playing with water and couldn't wait. This morning, En got to shower first when it was bath time, as Xuan was having her "time out" with me for throwing a tantrum.
After bath time, I recalled seeing a pair of Yellow underpants on the floor when Ya Ya was dressing Xuan. This is pretty normal as the munchkins are now able to take off their underpants and occasionally put them back on. However, I found Xuan running around later on with only her diaper on while En had the Yellow underpants on her. I highlighted to Ya Ya and she started looking around for the missing "Green underpants", and at the same time, asked Xuan where she had "hidden" it. (Note: Xuan has the habit of hiding toys and stuff under the dinning chair cushions or any funny corners she can find.) We were preparing to go marketing, so before long, we had clean forgotten about it and Xuan ended up going to the mall without any underpants.
When we reached home, the first thing we did was to search for the missing article. I even looked out of the window to see if Xuan had thrown it down the flat. Approximately half an hour later and having combed nearly the entire house, I decided we should just leave the mysterious Green underpants alone. Just then, I had a strange idea which prompted me to check on En. Viola!!! She had 2 underpants on her!!! The Green one first followed by the Yellow one!!!
I laughed and laughed... Well, Ya Ya remembered putting on a pair of Green underpants for the twin who got showered first, but forgot that twin was En instead of Xuan. Secondly, she conveniently put on the Yellow underpants, on top of the Green one for En without even realising it. So that solves the mystery of the missing Green underpants.
If you think this is funny, you had better pray hard you will not have twins. *Wink*
4 comments:
I think this is funny and nice. However this is only applicable to identical twins.
Besides Ya ya others must have also made the mistake of mixing them up right? Maybe when they're older they will learn how to gang up and trick others.
Hi Dylan
Yes, my husband and MIL had mistakenly fed one twin twice and starved the other during the infant days. Which is one reason why I had to be in control most of the time. Feeding time and quantity, and diaper changing time all had to be recorded on paper, just so everyone knows what had been done to each twin. Thank God Xuan had a birthmark on her arm for easy identification. Else it would be very confusing for those ad-hoc helpers.
The girls may be identical but they behaved and sound different. I'm not surprised they'll gang up and trick others by the time they are in school next year. The supervisor in their Preschool already asked me to think of a way to help them identify my girls. I still haven't decided on what "tool" to use yet. Any suggestions?
Er..... I don't have any friends that are twins so can't really help here but if it is preschool then maybe name tags? Not too creative huh?! LOL
Not sure if it is feasible but I thought maybe let them develop their own styles in dressing then maybe the teachers and others can use that. Perhaps one of them always like her socks up while the other wants them down, that kind of thing?
I always thought that one can learn to tell even identical twins apart. They just need time to study the behaviour and also the slight difference in features.
Hi Dylan
The socks up/down suggestion is quite creative! Hee... I'm still trying to think of one way where you can tell them apart even when they're seated at a table, so the "element" has got to be "applied" at chest level or above. The best I can think of at the moment is to have one going to school with 1 ponytail and the other 2. But those curly locks would have to be let down during their noon shower in playgroup, so the teachers will have to think of a way to figure it out themselves after that. Anyway, like what you say, I believe the teachers will be able to tell them apart given time. So until I can come up with a better plan, I think its best to give the teachers some "challenges" to look forward to in the new term. Hahaha... :)
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