Just a couple pictures I took of the twinkies this morning. Its difficult to get a good picture of Tilly. She wants to play "ham" and acts goofy in all her pictures. Case in point:





As soon as she saw the camera, she started squealing at the top of her lungs. Then she flashes me a big smile, and squeals again.

Her brother, on the other hand, looks very serious in his closeups:




He likes to consider the camera, and think about how he is going to take it from me and *taste* it.

I know I can hardly expect them to have similar personalities, seeing that they are fraternal twins, but, sheesh, they are NOTHING alike.

This is what Lucas looks like during naptime:



He goes right to sleep, never fusses, and likes to face toward his sisters crib (as he is doing here) so when he wakes up, he can look in on her (we joke that he considers her antics the next best thing to reality t.v.!)






This picture was taken of Matilda within ten seconds of the picture of Lucas. She fights naps, she fights sleep... we usually end up having to pick her up and tell her she needs to sleep, and rubbing her back for about two minutes, then laying her down again.

Many moms are advocates of "CIO" ("Crying it out") to train babies to "self soothe" and be able to put themselves down for the night. I never wanted to do CIO, and we haven't had to. Though it takes Miss Tilly a good twenty minutes to calm down and go to sleep, she sleeps a straight twelve hours once shes managed to settle in for the evening. And, shes a good napper, too. Besides, on the rare occasion we haven't heard her crying, by the time we went into her room she was hyperventilating and having hysterics. Thats not teaching her to self soothe, its teaching her that her parents ignore her when shes upset. I realize this technique works for some children, but, knowing my children it wouldn't have worked for them.

I hope we are as patient to the "little twins" on the way. I have a feeling that if we have another Tilly personality, that she/he might feel a little less validated than Tilly has been solely from a lack of time. This worries me *alot*. Also, that I am able to keep reaffirming Tilly and Lucas of how special they are when their siblings arrive.

These aren't twin issues, they ar ejust sibling issues I think.