I ended this blog four years ago, but messages still trickled in now and then from people wondering whether I could put these posts in book form so they could give it as gift to family or friend...
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Jonathan in blue; Matthew in red I'm a few days late, but I have a special gift to offer our twins for their sixth birthday. I am officially ending this blog. For more than five years - si...
http://twinsblog.troupsburg.com/2013/02/thank-you-thank-you-thank-you-and-good.html
Matthew and Jonathan have an odd dynamic when they deal with issues of frustration and anger, and I wonder whether we're alone in this. The boys are getting older -- they will be six in eight da...
http://twinsblog.troupsburg.com/2013/01/anger-frustration-and-empathy.html
"I remember you two," Santa exclaimed when Matthew and Jonathan climbed on his lap at our local mall a few weeks ago. How could he forget? Last year, the boys lured him into the center court so...
Jonathan in blue, Matthew in red Last week, I had our first conference with Matthew and Jonathan's kindergarten teacher. So far, so good. Their teacher admitted he was hesitant when he le...
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Scientists practically drool over identical twins and their shared DNA, especially when one twin develops a major, and possibly genetically related illness, and the other does not. Identical twin...
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Silly me. I had worried that Matthew and Jonathon would be labeled by their shared DNA in school. But does anyone say, "Hey, are you the mom of the identical twins?" No. They say, "Hey, you'r...
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Three days ago, Matthew and Jonathan started their new careers. They are officially kindergartners. And with their launch into the academic world has come a renewed round of the infamous questi...
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On September 5, Matthew and Jonathan will start kindergarten. They will be in the same classroom at our request and with the principal's blessing. He is as eager to observe the results as we ar...
http://twinsblog.troupsburg.com/2012/08/the-twins-are-ready-for-kindergarten.html
The medical community has finally confirmed something most all parents of identical twins have always known: Our twins do not emerge from the womb purely identical. Differentiation begins when th...
http://twinsblog.troupsburg.com/2012/07/the-evidence-is-in-differentiation-in.html
Jonathan and Matthew are on their way to kindergarten! They were ecstatic as they graduated preschool this week and last -- first from their private school and then from the public school. My ca...
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I got a rare glimpse yesterday into the minds of Matthew and Jonathan and how they experience the world as identical twins. We were sitting in the minivan after a school field trip, waiting for ...
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Right now, our boys enjoy sharing a bedroom. They face each other as they fall asleep. They often decline to snuggle in our bed when they awaken at night because neither wants to leave the ot...
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Matthew and Jonathan rarely dress alike, but their Angry Birds shirts are new (a gift from their big sister) and they are obsessed, so each insisted on wearing his this morning. As Matthew was...
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Matthew and Jonathan, especially Matthew, decided they wanted different haircuts. They are tired of people confusing them and they hope their new haircuts will help. The barbers tried. The rea...
http://twinsblog.troupsburg.com/2012/03/different-by-hair.html
Throughout my pregnancy, my OB and the ultrasound technician told us our boys were absolutely, positively, no-doubt-about-it fraternal. Yes, my doctor said, identicals can have separate placentas...
http://twinsblog.troupsburg.com/2012/02/finally-we-have-proof-doctors-often.html
I cannot even begin to imagine losing any of my children (nor have I any desire to do so), and I have no recollection of a sibling I lost at too-early an age. But even farther beyond my compreh...
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Jonathan and Matthew developed colds a while back. Jonathan is on the mend now, racing the dog from the dining room through the kitchen, eating like a teenager and jumping from the sofa to the...
http://twinsblog.troupsburg.com/2012/02/sick-and-sicker-immunity-differences-in.html
I have some advice for parents who fret over whether their twins should have one birthday cake or two, one birthday song or two, one birthday theme or two. Forget it. Who cares? They don't. ...
http://twinsblog.troupsburg.com/2012/01/one-birthday-cake-or-two-unnecessary.html
I picked up Nancy L. Segal’s new book SOMEONE ELSE’S TWIN, in part, because a Wall Street Journal reviewer described it as an “engaging narrative.” That, it is not. The book is a...
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Remember when I wrote that we never dress them alike? We didn't. They did. Nothing, not even a desire for individualism, comes between a four-year-old boy and his brand new Thomas the Tank En...
It's rare that our twins are dressed alike. Sure, we did it now and then when they were babies. It was cute, especially for photos. But it confused us and others and, as soon as they were able...
http://twinsblog.troupsburg.com/2011/12/want-attention-dress-them-alike.html
Each year as the holidays approach, the same question appears on the online forums for parents of twins. Parents want to know whether they should buy identical gifts, matching gifts or different...
http://twinsblog.troupsburg.com/2011/11/holiday-gifts-for-identical-twins-same.html
Casey and Connor Every day, I review the most recent news about identical twins, hoping to find information that will help us raise our two little miracles in the best pos...
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So far, so good. Matthew and Jonathan are attending two different full-day preschools this year. Together. On Mondays and Wednesdays, they attend a private preschool with a class size of 7 to...
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