I have three daughters. My sister has two daughters and a son. (I was going to say that she is lucky to have a mix of genders, but I don’t know how to phrase that without making it sound like I regret having three daughters, which I don’t, except when I think of poor Dick never getting to teach his own flesh and blood to write his name in the snow.)
When my youngest, Spot, and her cousin, Track, are together, they act how I would expect twins to act. One minute they are making up silly games like Touch The TV And Fall On Your Bum In Gails Of Laughter, Repeat Ad Nauseum; and the next they are pouring sand on each other and guarding their own siblings’ shoes from the nefarious clutches of That Cousin You Have To Watch Out For.
Now that Spot is racing towards potty training (on a very, very slow horse), I can tell you that I think I will probably have one more kid, despite the fact that when people warn you to “enjoy this stage because it goes by so fast,” they are completely lying.
Babyhood and toddlerhood in fact creep by, but now that it is my youngest doing the creeping, I feel an intermittent and uncontrollable craving for newborn neck to gobble.
Or maybe I am looking forward to Twilight more than I expected.
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Gobbling baby necks are always a great past time… at 5, I think we are done… something about 9 months on bed rest just doesn’t appeal to me, even if babies smell super sweet.
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You can nibble on my newborn’s neck any time you want as soon as she shows up. If she’s anything like our first, I’m sure she’ll appreciate it almost as much as the adults doing the nibbling.
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Oh, Jane. It’s been one of those weeks for me topped off by a day of sopping up barf and poop and pee (like you really wanted to know that) and then I finally have a minute of silence where I’m of course drawn to your words and you have to make. me. cry. Okay, so maybe I’m ultra emotional right now but regardless of those wonderful messes I encountered today I get to see my twins interact like that every day and even though they don’t smell quite as sweet as when they were newborn I have four little necks to nuzzle. And yet now you have my arms aching for another. Insane. And for me, as much as I love my boys, I’d like to have a gender mix as well.
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And that’s exactly what twins are like. One minute they make up these insane games laughing hysterically, and the next minute it’s war. Or eyepoking. Or an attempt at a hug gone tragically wrong. And I know what you mean about being baby hungry. I have been, too.
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