SPECIAL DAY with TWINS

SPECIAL DAY — my twins sons’ mother & I created “special day” years back where we’d split the twins up for a day & each take one so the could have focus one on one attention and individual time with each parent.The boys love it and look forward to it especially since we charge them with planning the whole days’ activities out with pretty much whatever they want to do and where ever they want to eat. Ironically both boys usually pick the same activities anyway when alone. Main Event with bowling, lazar tag & video games is a favorite. Jack inspired me to bowl my best game ever at a 150 with a Turkey book ended between two spares. As you can see my thumb SUFFERED for the game 🦃👍🏻😩🎳.I’d highly recommended doing this now and then a few times a year to any parents of twins who are together or divorced. The twins spend almost every moment of their life together so it really is a treat and growth experience for them. It really helps with parent child individual connection, communication & self esteem in my opinion.

SUMMER 2021 HAS BEGUN with a MINI-VACATION

1st Mini-Vacation on Summer 2021! “Back to Normal” will NEVER happen for us as we were NEVER normal and NEVER will be! The Watermelon Bathing Suit Bunch is DOMINATING Galveston, Texas! AND Pizza is ALWAYS the answer. I already get LOOKS overtime in public when people realize I have not one, but two sets of twins in tow with me as a single Dad, but we really get looks when the clothing is all matching a apropos for the environment:). An ode to Groucho Marx even slipped in there to start things off.

NOT Always 1 ‘Rad’ Moment After Another…

My FAVORITE ‘NON-RAD’ STORY…

Being a single Dad of 2 sets of twins having them with me half the week is not always one ‘RAD’ moment after another.  Make no mistake, those “Radical” Moments are super fun with great anticipation sometimes being planned for weeks & other times happening spontaneously.

However, most of the week is just like many of your weeks filled with chores, homework, cooker nothing special, shower/bath time (not always a disco bath due to time constraints), nail clipping, hair brushing (detangler is the 21st century’s greatest invention), quiet reading moments, movies, some of our favorite shows like Young Sheldon, Mickey Mouse Club, Paw Patrol, etc.  I often feel like at least one of the following in on 24 hours per day; the dish washer, clothes washer or dryer AND let’s not forget cleaning, cleaning & MORE CLEANING! Sometimes I feel like the clown balancing 5 spinning plates on sticks, but as you all know IT IS MORE THAN WORTH IT! It’s the best gift/job/role of a life time…BEING A PARENT!

That said, there are moments that test you, that you just kind of have to take in stride and even though I probably should have laughed here, I could help being amazed at her cunning and ability to SELL the fib at only 2 & 1/2 years old (this video is over 2 years old). I had put Brooklyn & Bailey down for their afternoon nap and Brooklyn as standard complied jumping up into bed and going right to sleep. Bailey however as standard as well went begrudgingly negotiating, debating & and outright arguing with me. She finally agreed once seeing her twin sister fast asleep already.

I closed the door and went out to the living room to get some work done on my lap top. A few minutes later I heard a knock at the door from the inside of the bedroom. Immediately I had my suspicions that Bailey was not asleep and was the perpetrator of the NAP ESCAPE attempt, however she had not yet mastered turning the door knob yet.

I cracked the door open to find Bailey standing there with a pack of wipes in her hand looking up at me saying, “Daddy, poo poo.” I looked back down at her with doubt to say the least and said, “You have poo poo in your diaper?” She replied with a straight face, “Yes.” So I brought her quietly out to the living room so as not to wake her sleeping fraturnal twin sister. After gathering all the supplies being the diaper, Aquaphor & the diaper which was graciously already provided to me, I laid her down on the living room carpet and took her shoes and jeans off. One last time I asked her with a serious face, “You have poo poo in your diaper?” She replied by arching her bottom and back and patting her own bottom and saying to me with a dead straight face, “Daddy, LOTS of poo poo!” I said, “OK Bailey.” Well, the second I pulled the tabs on the diaper and pulled it down to find a perfect clean diaper, her face broke into a huge smile and laugh and said (And I mean with word for word verbatim), “No Poo Poo! NO NAP!!”

I tried not to laugh, but couldn’t help it, by age 2 & 1/2 she had already learned to effectively con me! I immediately grabbed my phone to document the “interrogation” after the fact as seen above.

We’ve all been there. Please share some of your ‘Non-Rad’ Moments by emailing them to me at robert@robertboudwin.com so I can share some of them with us all!