Lol at the conception stories. Ironically, we had been trying for 5 months to conceive (not like first and last time, when we took one chance each and BAM!) and I think my exact words to dh that night were 'Well, its very late and I really don't feel like doing it, but I've got nice underwear on and if we don't do it tonight, there's definately no chance of getting pregnant this month.....'
Hello dts!
Reevie, I think the humour thing comes as a result of twins, not depsite! Man, when I think of the crazy days we used to have when our boys were 2 and 1 like yours, when it was one disgusting-substance-crisis after the other, I don't know how we would have coped if DH and I didn't just burst out laughing at the ridiculous situations we found ourselves in. Some of the stuff you would think had been made up if we described the sequence of events (exploding nappies, vomiting, children escaping out of front doors, simultaneous nosebleeds from one and tantrums from the other....) that can happen in 15 minutes! You have to keep laughing - otherwise it's all too depressing!
And until the dts were older, I really worried that ds1 (yes, your abbreviations are correct) would totally lose out, but now I think he gets the best of both worlds. Because there's only 20 months between them all, he has ready-made playmates all the time (and he can be in charge of the games because he's older) but he also gets the other special bits to himself, like his own friends at school, and occasional treats where someone will take him out on his own. All three of mine share a room and have similar routine so that there's not really any preference between being a 'singleton' (also use the phrase uncomfortably!) or a twin.
Which reminds me, I find it wierd that I spend most of the time refusing to use the word 'twins' when referring to my boys and always say 'DanielandJoel' or 'I have two four year-olds' very purposefully in real life, yet on here, I blithely refer to them as 'dt1' and 'dt2' to you lot. Anyone else noticed that?