Kimber's Navy Family

C holding sleeping O's hand saying, "Brother night-night!" We just transitioned our 26-month old twins to toddler beds. I posted a blog about the first time our twin toddlers slept in a real bed, which happened to be on a family vacation (read " Impossible "). They had actually been climbing out of Pack'n'Plays long before that. Before they were just climbing in and out of each other's Pack'n'Plays during our visits to my parents' house. The room they sleep in there has circular door knobs, not handles like where we stayed on vacation, and they didn't realize they could escape. I would just overly baby proof the room they slept in at my parents' house and pray that they didn't apply this behavior once we got home to their cribs. When we got home from our family vacation, they did make the connection that since they could climb in and out of their Pack'n'Plays, they could climb in and out of their cribs. We ha...

One of the facts that people, for some reason, like to quote to pregnant women of twins is that the divorce rate for parents of multiples is higher. I'm not sure how true that is. I did some Google searching a found a couple articles and blog posts supporting that: " Parents of Twins, Triplets, Quadruplets, and More Need to Strike a Balance " in the Post-Gazette.com " Association Between the Birth of Twins and Parental Divorce " by NIH in the US National Library of Medicine " Parents of Twins Slightly More Likely to Divorce " by Genevra Pittman in Reuters Now, there are a lot of articles out there and a lot of conflicting articles and blog posts, for instance, " Do Parents of Multiples Have a Higher Divorce Rate? " posted by TwinsTalk. I still hear this statistic now, though not as often. Perhaps people feel much more comfortable sharing bad news when there aren't little baby faces looking at them. Regardless, parenting twins i...