Today I found out that my sister is having another boy! I'm so excited and happy that I have boy and girl clothes and gear to hand down so I knew I would have whatever she needed. My 3 year old upgraded to 3T clothes recently and I moved all of her smaller clothes to the spare room. Well, that spare room is now the twins room and their dresser is full of big kid clothes. I am constantly rearranging things in there and moving small clothes into boxes for the twins since I am not having anymore children. My boy is living in 9 month clothes, while Audrey can wear 3-6 months, and some six month clothes. She is itty bitty so I hold on to her clothes a little longer. I was so happy to hear that my sister needs boy clothes because I can get her sizes quicker than I can my little girl. Now, I have boxes of clothes packed for her, bumbo with tray, glider with ottoman, swing, bouncy seat, etc. We kept everything.
I am not sure what other mothers or fathers do when organizing clothes in a room, but I am the person who needs organization in my life to be calm in my own household. I need the house clean so I can relax. If the house is not clean, I am not a happy person. In the twins room I bought two cheap plastic rolling dressers that came with labels. I was going to label them, but moved things around so much that I stopped that process. There are four drawers in each dresser. I made the top drawer for socks and miscellaneous small items. The second drawer is for the next size up, and each drawer goes up a size after that. I have the changing table with two shelves attached. The top shelf is for my boy and his current size clothes. The bottom shelf is for the girl and her current clothes. My husband put a shelf up above the changing table for toiletries and other handy items like burp cloths. We kept them in the same crib until Audrey, who is smaller, started crawling on top of Spencer in the middle of the night. I woke up one morning seeing Audrey with her arm around him, and the next morning (literally) she was pinning him down and he was crying. Now, she is in the crib and he sleeps in a pack 'n play. There is less space in their room having to sleeping quarters, but we gotta do what we gotta do.
As soon as I found out I was having twins, I read books about raising twins, researched identical vs. fraternal, joined BabyBump to be a part of a community of moms-to-be with multiples. Everyone had a million questions. I even looked into cloth diapering and then realized that was a daunting task that I was scared to tackle. I know that all the reading and asking questions really helped me for becoming a mother of twins, but there are questions you don't even know you have until they smack you in the face. I wouldn't have thought about a play area before or having two children of different gender in different sizes of clothes. I knew most babies in multiple births would be born premature and might spend time in the NICU, but I didn't think that would be me. In my family, our babies like to bake longer than their due dates. I was five weeks early and my water broke. Can't help that. I just hope that even if you aren't a mother of twins, I hope you can get something out of this or share the blog with someone who might need help.
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