Not All Is Lost....

Rhea has a lot of pretend "tea parties/birthday parties" with her pretend food. She'll arrange a table in her room with cups and saucers and "cake" and "cookies".

So every now and then Fiona and I get invited to a fairly elaborate tea party, with plastic tea cups and saucers and pretend food.
Rohan and Ryan get invited too, but since they don't usually listen to Rhea,and repeatedly try to eat the pretend food , Rhea's pretend tea party can deteriorate pretty quick when they are around.
Not to mention that they DO NOT get the whole pretend food thing...They believed her a couple of times when she said they were going to have "cake". And there was a time where they were playing in the backyard, and Rhea offered Rohan a (mud) "pie", which he promptly tasted.

But, I digress...

In any case, rohan was playing with Rhea's "tea pot" yesterday.
"I eating"...
To which Fiona said why dont you get a tea cup from Rhea's room. Dont' encourage them to play with tea cups i thought.
Rohan went inside and returned with a spoon.
"I eating...."
Fiona: Rohan that's not a cup...thats a spoon..go get a tea cup..
Rohan returned with a fork.
Fiona: Oh my god..I can't believe you boys don't know what a tea cup is..
At this point Ryan decided that *HE* would go get a cup, and raced inside.
Fiona: That's right Ryan, go get a tea cup from Rhea's room...
Ryan returned triumphantly, and held up his hand, in which he held ....
a POTATO.

That's my boy(s)!!!!
So not all is lost. Yes they may fight over spatulas , but there is hope..

An Important Milestone

Yesterday was an important milestone.
We were at Allison's birthday party, which was at the playscape across their house.
The kiddos were all playing on the playscape, including Rohan and Ryan.

At one point, Rohan was climbing the ladder (which is around 8 ft high, and curves into a platform on the playscape).

While he was climbing it, since he was directly above us (we could only see his feet), Fiona said "Ryan , Be careful".
Rohan stopped midway through his step, his foot suspended in mid air, then drew it back, and looked down and with his best stony stare looked at Fiona and said .."I *ROHAN*". There was no mistaking the "you'd best not make that mistake again" in his voice:-)

This is a milestone because twins are almost always confused about their names.And while they respond correctly to their name, this the first time it actually mattered to one of them, that we made a mistake.

There was a time they used to call each other "Nana" for no apparent reason.
"Who made this mess?"
"NANA!" they would both say, pointing to each other...

Of course, both Fiona and I shared a good laugh. And both of us tried that again today, calling him Ryan. Maybe three times. Each time Rohan would reply with a slightly annoyed "I Rohan..". Except the last time, where he followed the "I, Rohan" with a "I Ryan????"

Aite, so thats the end of that. But it is nice to know that they know who they are...