We've booked a room and we're definitely going to Twinsburg, OH for the Twins Days Festival in August! Is anyone else on here going? Anyone want to share where they're staying? So many of the hotels are booked out there, we're staying in nearby Macedonia. Not brave enough to travel that far AND camp, LOL.
Havnt done online journal in years. Well anyways Im 27 and have 7 kids 2 are step and are 13yo and 9yo. then 5 of my own. a 5yo boy 4yo boy 2yo girl and my 14 month b/g twins. Feel free to add me Ill add back
Has anybody gone to the Twins Days festival in Twinsburg, OH (US)? What was it like? How old were your kids when you went? Would you go again?
We've never been, but I was thinking it would be a fun thing to do with my 14 year old identical girls.
I'm not sure anyone is still active in this community but I thought there was no harm in asking anyway.
What is your bedtime routine for your twins?
We haven't bothered with a bedtime routine yet because of work schedules (many times I'll have to pick my husband up from work after the kids should be in bed and I have to bring them but now that it's getting nicer out he'll be cycling so I won't need to drive him), our 4 year olds sleeping needs, the fact that the twins share a crib atm (getting a new one this week because they keep waking each other up).
What's a good bed time for 5 month old twins to get in their crib(s)? 7pm?
When, if ever, do they get out of the stage where they HAVE to play with whatever the other's playing with RIGHT NOW, resulting in multiple screaming matches? My not-quite-2-yr-old twins are knee deep in this stage atm.
Is there a win for this?
Both twins acting out. A caution is given, either do X or you can't go scooting. One twin does it, the other does not, although she's not been an angel today. Going out with just one scooting isn't an option as I'm the only one home. Not allowing one to bring their scooter isn't an option as all holy hell breaks loose, I can't monitor the other on the scooter as I'm dealing with the screaming child. In the end, I had to make it a group punishment and we didn't go scooting. Neither twin complained, but I felt it was unfair.
Is there a win for this? Don't say 'we can't go scooting if'...again certainly comes to mind except that since both were awful earlier and since this was taken from them they've been quite good and seem to have gotten the message.
I hate the weekends.
Hello, Twin Parents!
We will be traveling from Virginia to Texas to see my family for Thanksgiving with our 9 month old boys.
There is a 2 hour drive to the airport, a short flight, a long layover, a longer flight and then the hassle of getting bags, carseats and renting a car once we get there. I know it will be a long/epic day!
I need travel tips! We're taking our light weight double umbrella stroller, our mei tais through the airport, and checking our car seats. I am going to call a rental company to have two rented pack and plays delivered to my parents house before we get there.
How are we going to survive?!
My twins are 2 years, 3 months old. For the last couple of months, naptime has been hit or miss with them. They rarely will agree to lay down and sleep in their beds any more, but they will almost always fall asleep if we take them in the car.
Gas prices being what they are, a daily drive just isn't in the cards. Plus, we can't get them out of their carseats without waking them up, and sleeping in their seats just doesn't look all that comfortable.
So, we are instead dealing with their terrible, horrible, awful grumpiness, which increases exponentially between the hours of 1:30 PM and 5:30 PM, around which time they get a second wind and are tolerable until bedtime.
I am not sure if we are missing something. My two older kids (singletons) napped until well after the age of 3. I think a large part of the issue here is that the twins sleep in the same room, and we don't have any way to get them to sleep aside from being in there with them (since they will keep each other awake otherwise).
I am very open to suggestions as to how to improve this, aside from going for a drive every day. :)
I need to know I'm not the only twin parent going through this...what I'm suspecting is a ID twin issue, but maybe not.
My girls started off knowing who they were. In other words, answer to their own name and saying their own name. It took them a while to figure out who was who in a picture (e.g. any picture/mirror image was their sister, rather than them - fair enough) but all in all they knew who they were. Then they discovered it was funny to trick people. My mum would ask them to raise their hands to "raise your hand if you're R..." One time someone raised the wrong hand, my mum laughed and so it began...
First it was just when my mum would ask (via skype) and then, actually I didn't notice when it began as such, Rebecca started calling herself Charlotte. I would correct her every time, gently but reminding her. At first I thought it was because R was using her sister's name as the pronoun "I" which is tricky, because its hard to model "I" Now it's gotten worse as Rebecca has taken to calling her sister Rebecca and insisting on it.
It's starting to upset me actually. She will still respond to her own name, but uses her sister's name to refer to herself and her name to refer to her sister.
So twin parents...is this normal? Part of twindom? Part of ID twindom? Or is my 2.5 year old having an identity crisis?
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Reaching out for any thoughts on how you've dealt with a similar circumstance...
My fraternal twin boys are 22 months. Both of them are generally healthy (no special needs, no disabilities; both intelligent, playful little guys). They sleep in the same room, both still in cribs. We keep a fan running at low level during sleep times for the white noise, it's fairly quiet in their part of the house, and the windows are pretty well dimmed with blackout curtains although some light does get through. Both go down pretty contentedly for a nap around 11:30am, and to bed around 7:30pm.
The challenge is in how long they sleep. A is on a much shorter sleep schedule than B. He wakes up from his nap, on average, at about 1pm (about a 1.5-hour nap), and wakes up crying at least once a night, either at about 12:30am or about 4:50-5:15. At 12:30, the only way I've found to get him back down is to rock him back to sleep. At 4:50-5:15, there is no going back to sleep and if left alone, he cries and screams until his brother wakes up. Our current MO is to get him out of his crib before he wakes his brother and lie down on the couch with him until a more reasonable hour, like 6; he'll either nap on one of us on the couch or lie there pretty contentedly for a while being cuddled, but it doesn't do much for our ability to sleep. Currently he has a runny nose and intermittent cough, which are not helping matters; we have amped up the humidifier and elevated the head of his crib.
B sleeps a lot more. He naps either until woken by his brother at 1:15pm or until 2:30 (if I sneak in, get A out of the crib, and take A away); if he sleeps less than 2 hours he's pretty cranky upon waking. He sleeps through his brother waking up mid-night. In the mornings if not awakened he'll sleep until 6:30 or 6:45am, sometimes 7, but he has been known to get up with his brother at 5:15 and be nice and cranky around 10:30 because he woke up too early.
How can I help A sleep longer? Up until now I've been a devoted Weissbluth follower, but CIO is less effective when A can credibly threaten to wake B at 5am and I know that, if allowed, B will sleep longer and be happier. All thoughts are welcome!
