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Will we always be a traveling amusement show?

Donna

It seems like no matter where we go, or what we do when we go out as a family with the twins we're stared at, gawked at, and approached as though we were some walking amusement side show. Twins are so darn common now you'd think people would be used to seeing them and leave us alone! In walmart it's "Oh, how old?" and "You have your hands full!" and "Are they identical?" In Safeway it's "How do you manage?" and "My what a large stroller!" It's not that these people don't have good intentions most of the time but I just about can't get my shopping done! Everytime I turn a corner a new stranger wants to stop me to peer at the "miracle of twins"! They are indeed miracles, but it takes me two hours to do thirty minutes of shopping just so these people can stop and ask me the same questions and stare at my traveling caravan of babies. lol, perhaps it will change when they are older since they are boy and girl and will seem less like they are twins?
Posted by Donna on 10/01/2008 06:01 PM \| edit \| delete

Kari

LOL!! Fun isn't it!! It will change trust me! Especially since they are b/g. I have boys, but my friends would tell me that people would ask if their b/g twins were identical! That one just cracks me up! Some people just don't have a clue!
posted by Kari on 10/02/2008 12:27 PM \| edit \| delete

Adriana

Hi, I have a boy and girl (10 months old).... and yes... they ask if they are identicals, ksksksks. Despite different sex, my girl is blond with blue eyes and my boy is brunet with brown eyes. But sometimes they see one wearing a pink dress in a pink car seat (with her ears pierced) and the other wearing a blue short with a soccer ball printed in a blue car seat.... and they ask: Are they twins? 2 boys or 2 girls? I always think: are you collor blind? ksksks have a nice day, Drika
posted by Adriana on 10/03/2008 10:57 AM \| edit \| delete

Donna

People constantly ask me what mine are too, even though we make a point to dress them very sex specific. And I cannot count how many times I've been asked if they're identical! Come on how can you be identical with different gear?! Although my friend who does have identicals still always gets asked the sex of her kids when they're very obviously identical girls, dressed in matching outfits and everything. I think people just ask the dumb questions as an excuse to break into conversation with you so they can look at the kiddos. Sometimes I feel like posting a don't feed the animals sign on our stroller that instead says: "Please do not touch or talk to the twins, mother can become feisty."
posted by Donna on 10/04/2008 10:36 PM \| edit \| delete

Jennifer

The whole boy girl thing happened with my first and I never dressed him in anything slightly girly... Now with these two do anyday i know it is going to happen again
posted by Jennifer on 05/29/2009 09:30 PM \| edit \| delete

Jennifer

The whole boy girl thing happened with my first and I never dressed him in anything slightly girly... Now with these two do anyday i know it is going to happen again
posted by Jennifer on 05/29/2009 09:31 PM \| edit \| delete

Shannon

so far, it happens to me everytime i take the kids out too. I have g/g fraternals and they always wear 'girly' clothes and have pink car seats. "Are they twins?" "Are they boys or girls?" "you sure have your hands full".....it never ends. Someone even came up and kissed Ally one time! i almost knocked the lady down, i was so shocked. Sometimes i just want people to keep their hands to themselves and stop shaking there head at me and like they feel sorry for my husband and I. i do understand that it's unique to some people and that they mean no harm, but give me a break.

At least we have something to laugh about in years to come ;)

posted by Shannon on 02/18/2010 10:23 AM | edit | delete

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