Twins are 6

In all fairness, I don't want to favor one child over the other. I mean, what would happen if I posted about a birthday when it actually happened??? It would be unfair!!! Of course...I remind my children regularly, life isn't fair. It's my new motto actually. 

It exhausts me to no end when the younger 3 complain about things like "it was MY turn to (insert dang near anything you want to here...)", "but I wanted to (insert carry, help, open, eat, brush, etc) first, last" WHATEVER. Perpetual dissatisfaction, so I started discussing the unfairness of all things in life.

It's possible I discussed the starving children in 3rd world countries as well.  Because they are.

All that unfairness aside, we can now talk about these two people turning 6! Which was last month...

6.

Holy cow, how did THAT happen??? They say "the days are long and the years are short"

Very true. I have some VVEERRRYYY LLOOOOOOONNNG days.

Let's see, we will do Mini P first since she is the youngest and once in a while should be first...ya know...being fair. LOL. (as a side note, things might be more fair if I actually remembered who did what and could diplomatically choose based on whose turn it was to do said task.- Just sayin')

Mini P, is my little mama!  All I have to do is remind everyone of a rule or task and she will take over from there to enforce it all.  This helps immensely because sometimes I get off track and distracted and forget about things.  She has also been known to enforce punishments that I may have forgotten about as well.

Mini P is competitive. She is also something of a perfectionist. She loves playing soccer and is actually very good. She is determined and has drive to succeed and play well.

And also likes to run with her mouth open apparently.

Mini P loves school and loves to read and do her school work. She is very independent and often will move ahead without Monkey, which is fine with me :).  She reads at about a 3rd grade level and her writing skills are improving every day.  

Here is her Christmas list. I did not help her with any of it. Nor do we plan on getting a fish.  Likely a book she can keep...because in this house, we only have about 400 kids books...not even exaggerating...what's one more?

She is not big on hugging or kissing and often you have to pry it out of her. Once in a blue moon she will volunteer out a hug or kiss and on those days you just thank your lucky stars :).  She is creative and funny and very matter of fact.  She is sweet and often dramatic. I have to hold back the laughter when she is beyond upset and tries to talk when she is crying...no one can understand her and it is hilarious...in a sad and sympathetic way :)


Monkey. Oh my crazy kid.  Monkey is my joking, lovable, huggable, kissable boy. He can also ask questions for 2 hours straight and make this mama crazy.  

Last week when we had to have a suburban towed he asked so many questions..."where does the tow truck driver live? What color is his house? What kind of wheels is on his other trucks? Is he the one fixing the truck? How is he going to drive 2 trucks? Where does he live?" The questions when on and on and on...  Really. I don't have a CLUE what color his house is (and frankly, I actually don't even care!).

Monkey is my observer. He notices things and remembers them. I think this stems from learning to read late, or his observations took up so much space he had no place in his brain for reading. Either way, he notices things most of us wouldn't. Vehicle types, wheel types and who has wheels on their car/truck like that, color of this or that. He even spends time on the soccer field observing...

He recently told me he doesn't like soccer. In fact he doesn't like baseball either. He likes practice, "but games are boring and he doesn't like boring things".  Pssshhh, works for me, then I don't have to pay for it. LOL!  Funny thing is, if he just puts a bit of effort into it, he's good and has actually scored a few goals this year and looked good doing it. But really, we don't care if they play or not, we just open doors for the option. Again, he's an observer and would rather watch.

Monkey is also not much of a techie. Ya know, gamer. Some of his school stuff is on the computer, but given the choice, he'd rather be outside or playing Legos.  The boy LOVES his Legos and is a very imaginative builder. He likes to watch videos and build what they have built.  He is finally reading, and reading a lot. It's like it finally clicked.  For Kinder, at the same time as teaching him phonic words and sight words, he is learning to spell and write them. I don't know why, but that's not how Agent P learned. They focused on reading and then went back to spelling. I think my method for Monkey is what has made the biggest difference. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

So there you go - the twins in a nut shell. 

Total opposites really, in so many ways. I can't believe how lucky I am to have twins, they truly are one of my biggest blessings in life, it's like a double blessing - blessed to have them and blessed to experience twins. 

Cheers!