{"id":3409,"date":"2013-06-24T07:56:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T14:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streamdoubletrouble.com\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2013-06-23T22:00:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T05:00:21","slug":"twinsanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/twinsanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Twinsanity"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n I thought my little angels were upstairs sleeping peacefully. And then I heard stirring through the monitor.<\/p>\n Destroy:<\/b> RAWR But when they\u2019re not otherwise dogpiling one another in dangerous situations, they\u2019re actually quite fond of one another.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve always heard twins have a special connection. It\u2019s one of the reasons I advocated so vocally having the terrible twosome crib together<\/a> as soon as they figured out the basic regulate ones own body temperature thing.<\/p>\n In fact, one of Search\u2019s most inconsistent days in the NICU was the day after Destroy came home. His doctors ordered a slew of tests and prepared me for a delayed homecoming. But his nurses just laughed. \u201cHe misses his brother.\u201d<\/p>\n And so, we have entered the brotherly love phase in force.<\/p>\n When together, they do their best to kill one another. (Or at least make it look realistic enough to drive their parents crazy.)<\/p>\n But they can\u2019t stand to be apart.<\/p>\n At our last gymnastics outing, Destroy scampered away from the mat. He was not playing. \u201cNo, I have to go be in trouble outside. All done at nastics. Search is at home.\u201d<\/p>\n When Destroy refused to cooperate, I employed the tried and true parental tactic of, \u201cOk, you stay here, we\u2019re leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n Search absolutely flipped his lid. \u201cNOOO!!! DESTROY NEED COME TOO!!!\u201d<\/p>\n Search got sick the day after his birthday. He went to sit pathetically in the school office, woefully clutching a bucket until someone came to retrieve him. Destroy was beside himself. When I picked Destroy up from school, he demanded I show him the office to prove Search wasn\u2019t being left behind after having been in the place where Destroy often spends in preschool detention.<\/p>\n Not to long ago, I arrived to pick my little hurricanes and heard Search sobbing. \u201cWhy is he crying?\u201d asked one of the attending adults. \u201cI thought Destroy was the twin that got sent to time-out.\u201d<\/p>\n They may be little pistols at home, but when Mom and Dad aren\u2019t around to suck up to, Search and Destroy have one another\u2019s back \u2013 in the way only 3-year-old boys can express.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve recently noticed how easily they take to new situations. They have no fear. (Well, in context, Search is apparently afraid of the air conditioning.) Perhaps this is a result of their beginnings filled with strangers poking and prodding at them from prior to day 1. Perhaps this is because they already have a partner in crime.<\/p>\n This has occasionally made me pause. I believe this is something all mothers of multiples grapple with.<\/p>\n They are individuals. Two very different people. (And boy oh boy do they have different personalities.) But they\u2019re also a team. I guess I\u2019d always assumed such a connection applied more to identical twins then fraternal (what with the sharing of the exact same genes and all).<\/p>\n
\nSearch:<\/b> Noooo. No rawr, Destroy. We need to sleep now, k?
\nDestroy:<\/b> rawr.
\nSearch:<\/b> MOMMMEEEEEE!
\nDestroy:<\/b> Argh!!! He bite me!!!<\/p>\n