Twins?

For the last 2 years people have looked at our boys and asked, "Are they twins?" Even when Josh was 3 months old and Daniel was over double his size. Now that they are much closer in height - and look more similar - we get fewer questions. Maybe people feel they don't need to ask because it's so obvious.

Christmas morning we had got them matching pajamas. Bad idea. Now that they both need a haircut it's nearly impossible for me to yell the right name based on the back of the head I see playing with something he shouldn't be.

Last week at church I think the boys (possibly subconsciously) played into this. A little background: For some reason, whenever you ask Josh his name, he always says something other than, "Joshie". For a while, he would have to point at and identify everyone else in the room in turn before giving his own name. Very unselfish. Now, he will often just point and say, "Daniel". When you say, "No, who are YOU?" he'll say, "Joshie Jon McInnis".

Anyway, I dropped them off at their 2-3 year old Sunday school class and signed them in. Josh ran to the sand table and I took Daniel to the bathroom before he got too excited and forgot. When we came back, the teacher of the week - who knows the boys fairly well - had assembled the kids at a table to work on crafts. The last thing I heard as I was slipping out and Daniel was sitting down was the teacher saying, "Here Josh, I have your nametag for you." And Daniel didn't say anything when she pinned it on him."

I can only assume that she knew they were both the crazy McInnis boys and while Daniel was in the bathroom she had the two nametags in her hand and asked Josh his name. When he gestured in the general area of the bathroom and said, "Daniel," she clipped the matching tag to him.

When I got back to pick them up at the end of the class, they had their right names again. I didn't say anything to the teacher, but I wonder how long my little imps let this go.