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15 Responses to “Ummm…Yes.”

• Jen
  October 9th, 2007 12:36
  1

  “Oh…twins. Do they have personalities YET?”

  No, they get those when they’re about twenty.

  *idiots!*

• Lori in Denver
  October 9th, 2007 12:43
  2

  You mothers of irregular children are so… so TOUCHY about it, aren’t you?

• Pann
  October 9th, 2007 12:46
  3

  heh heh heh….

  oh the stupidity of people!

  My dad used to answer stupid questions with the following question:
  “did your mother have any children that lived?”

  He’s an odd man….

• pokerpeaker
  October 9th, 2007 13:01
  4

  Since we have identical children, our babies do everything the same. They cry at exactly the same time, want to be held at exactly the same time and want to eat at…you guessed it…exactly the same time. They even move exactly the same. It’s realy weird. But understandable. AFter all they aren’t normal. They’re twins!

• kate
  October 9th, 2007 13:53
  5

  ROTFL!

• Heather
  October 9th, 2007 14:06
  6

  OH MY!!!

• Janice
  October 9th, 2007 14:29
  7

  that one always annoys me!!

• Jen
  October 9th, 2007 15:48
  8

  Well, if that doesn’t win stupid question of the year award!

• kim
  October 9th, 2007 22:21
  9

  Are you kidding me? Do you think before you speak like most normal people?

  UGH I hate these questions.

• Krissy
  October 9th, 2007 22:52
  10

  Recently I wanted to add to the stupid comments you are collecting, but it was closed…

  I am in a store, overly friendly woman blocking my exit. Woman looks at my son and says “he’s so happy and smiley.” I politely grunted. Woman says “which one is older?” I answer “he is.” Woman ponders this and says, I kid you not, “oh, that is why he is so smiley. It is because he is older than her.” She was not kidding.

• Moni
  October 10th, 2007 10:08
  11

  Although intellectually I know that their personalities will be just as different as any “regular” siblings, still I find myself frequently comparing these differences both to myself and when talking with others. It’s just very interesting. In addition to their being twins probably it’s because they’re the same size and at the same stages of development. In a classroom with kids the same ages one expects everyone to be different but it’s perhaps much more obvious when they’re twins since the word “twins” has a connotation of sameness. I am getting anxious to see them again.

• Pann
  October 10th, 2007 10:46
  12

  I think it’s only natural to compare your children. It’s just another way of appreciating each one’s special traits. You just have to make sure that you’re not perceived as pointing out favorites!

• Dawn
  October 10th, 2007 11:47
  13

  UGH!
  And how about when strangers want to assign personalities to your children because of how they respond in that one minute interaction?

• Stacie
  October 10th, 2007 12:27
  14

  I reopened the comments on “Crazy Comments” where there are a LOT of wacky things people say to parents of multiples, or parents in general.

• Kristy
  October 12th, 2007 22:48
  15

  I have a friend who adopted two little babies from Russia. At the time of their adoption, they were 14 and 15 months old (they have a 6 week age difference between the two of them). Same agency, same orphanage, different parents.

  So, any time she was out in public, people will ask her, “Oh are they twins?”

  “Nope.”

  “How old are they?”

  “Betty is 20 months, and Jeffrey is 18 months.”

  “How did you do that?”

  “A very talented vagina.”

  Of course, she had to stop saying that the first time the kids tried to say “vagina.”