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Cleaning

Your Twin Toddler Forecast: Twinadoes

Your toddler twins will put on a show that can only be described as “twinadoes.” Imagine the Tazmanian Devil from the Looney Tunes cartoons. He spins like crazy, leaving a wake of destruction in his path. Then, he takes a quick break, looks around and starts spinning again. Here is a video of the Tazmanian [...]

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The Reality of Keeping a House Clean with Twins

Newsflash: Your house will be a mess with twins. I remember when our house was always orderly and I could walk freely through the house without stepping on a hard plastic toy. Those days were before twins. Before twins, your home may be a house of order and zen-like peace. As a dad of twins, [...]

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When to Move to the Next Size Diapers

Your twins will go through diapers at a rate that will surprise you. “Didn’t we just buy a box of diapers?” you’ll ask, surprised, when you see your stock running low. (The answer is always “yes,” by the way.) One of the challenges of diapers is knowing when to move up to the next size. [...]

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How to Clean Up the Kitchen Floor After Twins Eat

Babies are messy eaters. Twins combine each other’s messiness to create a perfect storm of mess that seems to be larger than the sum of each individual baby’s mess. Once your babies are eating solids and feeding themselves, your twins will make a mess with every single meal that they eat. This means that there [...]

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How to Give Twins a Bath

Giving twins a bath is always an adventure. When our girls were newborns, we decided we would bathe one girl every other day. That idea worked on paper, but in reality, with life being unpredictable, we couldn’t keep that schedule. We needed to make sure we got the girls bathed whenever we could. Since our [...]

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