I get so caught up in focusing on the girls’ individuality that I sometimes overlook the ‘twinny’ things they do:
1. They pull the cloth off the other one’s head when they are playing peek-a-boo
2. They follow each other around. I’ll plonk G in one corner and R in the other with a load of toys between them and they’ll invariably end up sitting next to each other, scrapping over the same toy.
3. They crawl after each other, usually in pursuit of the same object.
4. They exchange some toys mouth-to-mouth. G will put a duplo man in her mouth, R will pull it out and put it in her own mouth, G will extract it from R’s mouth and put it back in her own and they will do this for ages
5. They wrestle. Sometimes this is apparently hilariously funny. At other times, I have to don my UN peacekeeping beret, wade in and separate them
6. They have started to work as a team – one will crawl over to an object, pick up it and pass it to the other one. I guess this is the start of the tag-team mentality that multiples often develop in their second year.