Twintuition

Paul and I watched a show on Prime Time last night called Twintuition.  It was about identical twins and the way they think alike, act alike, and of course look alike even when they aren't together.  They did many different studies and it was just amazing at how alike two individual people can be.  For example, they had 10 sets of identical twins in this one high school and did a project where they would say "what food am I thinking of", "what color am I thinking of", "what number am I thinking of" and so on.  95% of identical twins knew what their twin was thinking while only 40% of fraternal twins knew.  There were so many examples of times when one identical twin was in a car accident, a sporting event accident, or felt pain in some other way and the other twin knew something had happened just by feeling the pain themselves.  This one twin was in the hospital for something and his brother was at home.  He woke up out of sleep and told his mom something was wrong with his brother.  They called the hospital and the doctors said they were just going to call because the brother was having some sort of terrible attack on his body.  It was really unreal to watch.  There were so many examples that all of them couldn't have just been coincidence. 

The reason these things happen with identical twins they say is because they come from one egg, one embryo, that splits.  Whereas fraternal twins are completely separate right from the beginning.  I don't believe in the telepathy or "sharing of a soul" that some say identical twins have, but there is some form of bond that I think is only possible through this rare relationship. 

Paul is worried that our twins will gang up on us and plot against us when they get older.  I'm sure this is true, as would probably be with any siblings to their parents.  I think it will be funny when they get old enough to play tricks on people that can't tell them apart.  I am pretty confident I will always be able to tell them apart...Paul on the other hand may be a different story.  :)

Hannah and Hailee are now 5 months old.  Even with the months that have gone by, I still cannot believe we have been blessed with identical twin girls.  It's one of those things that you just never imagine happening to you.  They were such little miracle babies from the moment they were born.  I'm sure that just like Ella, we will keep falling more and more in love with our baby girls every month that goes by. 

Hailee and Hannah

Hannah

Hailee

Our little twinnies <3