Are they twins?

"Why do you dress them the same?" -- Seriously.. why do people think it is okay to be so intrusive when talking to mothers of twins?

I actually get annoyed most by the comments that people make rather than actual questions even though the questions are really annoying.  Here are a few: After asking "Are they identical?" and my reply of no, they are fraternal, I usually get the comment, "Well they look the same to me!" - Wow...do you really want to argue with someone who is going on 4 hours of sleep????  Another common one is: "Wow! Double Trouble!"  Give me a break...that is so cheesy...if anyone was ever close enough when they made that comment I would probably slap them.  :)  One question we get all of the time after they ask if we have twins is..."Oh...a boy and a girl?"  No, actually, two girls see their pink coats and their barrettes???  My husband swears that the next time someone asks if we have twins he is going to say with a very straight face, "No, one is from an affair that I had with a coworker...isn't my wife a trooper?"  LOL.  ;)

I have a confession....When I am in the mall or out in public and I see someone looking at the twins or looking like they want to come over and say something, sometimes I purposefully act like I am extremely interested in something and walk the other way.  I hate to admit it because I am not a rude person, but seriously the next person who asks me, "So what type of fertility treatment did you have?", I am going to reply, "Well, it wasn't very successful, we were trying for sextuplets and only got twins".  By the way, I did not undergo any fertility treatment, I am not against it, but why do people even think that is any of their business?  If I saw someone limping or walking funny I wouldn't ask them if they had their hemorrhoids removed????

I TOTALLY DO THE SAME THING!!!  People can be so rude! 
Do you ever get people who think you can't see or here them when they galk and say out loud "oh gosh she has her hands full"  or something rude?  I hate that just as much.

We get the "How do you tell them apart?" question a lot.  We always respond with "Uh...they look nothing alike."  I mean, seriously, have you seen our boys?  Jack has two pounds on Ben and has red hair.  Ben has long dark blonde hair.  They look totally different!  And I hate it when people say "Double trouble!"!!!  It's not just the cheesy saying, it's the fact that the person saying it seems to think they are the first one to ever think of it and they're friggin' geniuses because of it!  And who's business is it if I breastfeed or not?  I get that one a lot too.  I think it's a personal issue and rude to ask.  Especially the hussy who asked me and then prodded me for why I wasn't breast feeding.  Oh, and a funny one we get some is "Are they idententical or paternal?"  Jack looks just like my hubby and ben looks like me, so people will comment about that and sometimes I'll tell them my husband isn't the father of Ben.  So entertaining!  Sometimes if we are pushing them through the mall or WM or wherever, if I see people looking and making comments, I just act like I didn't hear them.
 
Good lord, I could go on forever about rude questions and comments.

 I think all the questions  and comment above are annoying but the two that get me the most are oh I had my kids 11 months apart and how do you do it. First off no one knows what its like to have two babies the same age on the pretty much the same schedules and same learning curve and trying to do everything that needs to be done in that little bit of a time frame where one just fell asleep while you entertain the other one and doing all this with little less then 3 hours of sleep or two babies who both have colic at the same time like a mother of mutiplies do and the how do you do it gets me the most. I just want to scream at them you can't see that i am sleepy, irritable, and more or less trying to keep my sanity and manners from going out of the window. And the worst questions and comments  come mostly in the beginning and they all involve the birth of the babies. You know the question or comments like oh you didn't have a c-section or did it hurt. I am not saying that either way is bad but come on you just spent how ever many hours or mins in the birthing position and you think that everyone in the world has seen every part of your body why do you want to come out to a bunch of disrespectful people to spill anymore of your buisness. I also think its funny when parents of  a single baby tries to give parenting tips to a mother of twins or mutiples. Like maybe you should try keeping them on a diffrent schedule. ok so you want me to wake up a baby who has just fallen asleep 10 mins before feeding while the other one is wailing to be changed or when they get sick you need to keep this one away from this one I have a set of one year old twin boy. They both love playing with each other and pretty much do everything and anything to stay close including screaming and that includes even when they are sick . I mean common people myob as my 11 year old would say. 

Preach on kshif468 !!