I’ve always assumed identical twins must have an identity crisis at some point in life. None of my twins are identical. Taryn and John are boy/girl and the boys don’t look anything alike. Still, people confuse them all the time. I think they know they don’t look alike, they just don’t know who’s who.
It’s like not knowing which was Milli and which was Vanilli. Obviously.
(If you don’t understand that joke, you suck for being young.)
Jackson takes special offense to being confused with his brother. Their differences are always pointed out, “I weigh more, but Reese has a gianter head.” It’s an important distinction.
At a church dinner recently our friend Marty said, “Reese would you like cheese on your spaghetti?”
Jackson looked at her squarely and said, “No, I’m not Reese.”
Both the boys have recently gotten interested in playing with the iPad. It’s a good thing, since I never use it, which makes me feel guilty about buying it. If they use it, I can claim it was a wise investment.
Reese has a bad habit of chewing on the headphone cord. It’s gross. It also probably ruins the cords. He’s done it to every set of headphones in the house. He even got in my purse and got my headphones out, used them and gnawed them to bits.
I think he’s part hamster.
Also, I should pay more attention to them.
This morning, Reese asked if he could play with the iPad. I told him yes, but not with the headphones because he had ruined so many of them. In true Reese fashion he refused to play with the iPad and stomped off. (He showed me!)
A while later Jackson asked if he could play with “the big iPod.” Again, I said yes, but not with headphones because they were all ruined.
Jackson grabbed my cheeks, moved my face three inches from his and said, “Mom, I’m Jackson.”
As if I could ever forget that.
I let him use the headphones.
I can just now imagine how all sorts of trouble we’ll be having with our boys. At least you’ve determined another important distinction between them – one is part hamster
The big teeth give it away every time.
I remember Noah doing something similar to me when he was even younger, grabbing my face like that to tell me something important that I should really already know. I love that age. I love that they are so totally different but melt right in to eachother.
Can they move in with you?
Wait a minute.
How could you NOT know the difference between Milli and Vanilli?
Sheesh.
Some people are really dumb. That’s how.
I can picture Jackson holding your face and straightening you out. LOL Precious!! Who is Milli Vanilli???
Obviously, you’re only 25 Jo-Anne….
and that is why I love you lol
Hahaha! I don’t remember being confused with my fraternal twin but I’m sure there were confusion too especially that our Grandma dressed us alike until probably we were 11 or 12.
I just love ALL your kids!
Ask your mom! People confuse them all the time!!
I love you all too!
sweet
Sweet…or psycho
awww totally precious moment!!! funny thing about Mill Vanilli and being young refernce. Today at the grocery store i told Brandon “right turn clyde.” H ejokingly asked if Clyde was my other boyfriend and then I realized….because you see he’s a WHOLE 4 years younger then me he had no idea I was referencing a movie…BAH young people suck!
You cougar!!
They do suck! And you are a cougar like Stasha says!
Haha thanks girls.
I personally thing they are playing you. If you put them in the back yard there is no need for headsets at all…
I tried that, but they keep insisting on coming inside for food and stuff…
Ugh. I can so identify with the children who have commandeered the iPad. They’ve got my do full of free Apps, I can’t find what I need. And I often all my Jake (18yo) Joe and my Joe (8) Jake. It must be the “J”s.
We do need to hear more about the big head, er, I mean Reese. Poor little outcast….
I lost track of this because I can’t stop singing blame it on the rain
rain
rain
I cracked up at the Milli Vanilli joke, that means I’m old right?
When my daughter was younger she also chewed on headphones. thank God she only chewed on the cheap $50 ones and not my nice $100 ones