One of the joys of having twins is witnessing the development of two totally different children… at the exact same time. As they grow, their little personalities start to emerge, and we get tiny glimpses of who they are becoming. I am fascinated by the obvious distinction between boy and girl development. Jake and Lilly sometimes have very different ideas for how a certain toy is to be used. For example, the other morning Lilly decided to have breakfast with Tickle Monster. She carefully set the table with two plates, a plastic cup of orange juice, a very realistic-looking fried egg, a banana and one strawberry. She sat down in the chair next to Tickle Monster, and she very politely gave him a sip of her orange juice and shoved a banana in his mouth. The two of them were enjoying a lovely breakfast when Jake discovered the neatly set table and decided that the plastic plates looked more like hockey pucks than serving pieces. In one fatal swoop, everything was flung off the table! Then, like any other boy his age, he began chunking the plastic plates across the room, grinning as they slid along the wood floor. Poor Lilly was devastated! She sobbed as if Jake had ripped her heart out, then after about five minutes, she wiped her tears and patiently picked up every single plate, cup and morsel of food her brother had so efficiently “cleared” off the table.
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