Silly Sisters

January 4, 2011 Silly Sisters

Back in college, my roommate and I kept a notebook handy to record all of the stupid funny things we would say that made us laugh. Revisiting this notebook over the years has always proven to be nothing short of fall-over-side-splitting-L-O-L hilarious. (For me). Not because we were comedians, or anything. Probably because we were just silly girls having fun together in only the way girls can do. When I found out our twins were BOTH going to be girls this is immediately where my mind went. OK. Let’s take a look at the silliness recipe here:

1. Two girls
2. Two girls that are sisters
3. Two girls that are sisters and the same age
4. Two girls that are sisters and the same age and living in the same residence throughout childhood and into the teenage years and who knows what else.

Let me tell you, I have had my share of silly girl experiences. Firstly, with my niece. She is 3 years younger than me and we grew up together. Not in the same house, but not a week went by without a play date or sleepover.  In childhood we shared that sister-type bond and many silly times were had.  MANY. We can easily recite the entire script of The Princess Bride.

In grade school and high school, my best friend and I would write notes, epic notes, where we would obsess comment on the boys in school. We would start a story, pass the note and the other would pick up the story and continue. Some of these stories lasted for something like three years. We saved many of these notes, which were folded from notebook paper into the shape of little footballs. I literally threw out an entire box-load of these when my mother made me move all of the stuff out of her house! We also had marathon after-school-before-the-parents-got-home phone chats (oh, the days before texting, email and facbook!) again, taking about boys, watching MTV in the background, laughing like crazy.

Thirdly, my college roommate and I took silly to a new level. Our silliness was unrivaled by any other girl/girl roommates in the WORLD. Somehow we had the presence of mind to write down our little musings and jokes. We are still best friends to this day, have been eachother’s maid of honors, and now we are moms. We have made a pact to be roommates again in a retirement home after we out-live our husbands. What’s sillier than that?

So I’ve had the “sisters” silliness, the “same age best friend” silliness. I’ve had the “living with same age best friend” silliness. But never all at the same time. I can only imagine what is going to be bred from the imaginations of my daughters as they begin to play with eachother and live in these imaginary girl-worlds of fun and utter sillytown. I am JEALOUS of the potential here. I know how fun it can be.

So it’s time to start documenting the silly things. Here are just a few recent ones from my observation:

• “zip-a-da-bee” – Jilly made this word up. Say it with gusto! ZIP-a-da-BEEEEE! It’s really fun to say. At random times. Or as the answer to any question.
• “dody-dody” – same as above.
• “POO-donk” – This is actually a word ML and I used from their infancy to describe the container for poopy diapers. (I have no idea. Most definitely a product of sleep deprivation.) The girls now utilize this phrase as the punchline for any joke.
• Speaking of jokes. Jilly and I wrote our first knock-knock joke and it goes like this:
  Knock-knock
  Who’s there?
  Waffle!
  Waffle who?
  By this point we both crumble with laughter and we don’t get much further. Or we conclude with POO-donk!
• “Amanda’s World” This is a place that we have noticed Amanda going to since she was about 9 months old. She gets lost in her own thoughts, songs, noises and dance moves. When she notices you watching her she bashfully smiles and either carries on, including you in her world or gets a little embarrased and giggles and moves onto somthing else. Most recently we caught her alone in the living room, wearing a New Years’ Eve headband (with dangly stars) around her waist so that the stars were sticking straight out and she was singing Happy Birthday.

We are just getting started here. And the girls don’t even play that much with each other yet. The majority of their humor is directed at me or their dad. We can just now see the emergence of their interactive play, which I hope will develop over the next year. I am pretty excited to watch that happen. 2011 is going to be a lot of fun!

Snuggly Girls Watching TV

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