Twins and Things

Most of you know that I have a twin sister, Carleen. We are fraternal twins. Our maternal grandmother was a triplet - two girls and a boy just like my triplets. My great grandmother gave birth to the triplets in 1900 at home on the farm. They were number 9, 10, and 11 in a family of 16. My grandmother was a smallish woman but she had to be a pretty strong, didn't she? My mother's side runs amok with multiple births - there have been 3 sets of twins and three sets of triplets in the past couple of generations.



My Great Grandmother and Grandmother (on the left).



My twin sister and I.

Did you know that anyone can have identical twins - the splitting of one egg just happens. Fraternal twins/triplets are passed on through the maternal side of a family. Apparently, the ability to drop more than one egg at a time is inherited. (I dropped 30 eggs one time at Walmart at the front door! Haha, I really did!)

You wouldn't believe how many strange questions we would get with the triplets, especially when they were smaller and we had them in their triple stroller. One peculiar question was, "Are they identical?". Uummm, no...all parts have to match on the kids for them to be identical and with two girls and one boy, well... "No, they are not identical". There can be identical twins within triplets. Anyway...



The triplets in the hospital.

Enough of the biology lesson. I said all that so I could post this cute video of these twins talking to each other in their own language. My mom and dad said that my twin sister and I did the same thing. We would chatter back and forth and even laugh at each other and no one could understand what we were saying. Click here to watch this fun video. Enjoy!