With any amount of observation it is easy to see plethora examples of yin and yang in our environments. My son's strong set of magnets for example. He can place one on top of the table, the other underneath, and move them around with no interference from the wood in between. I tend to think of my twins in similar terms.
So often they are joined at the hip. While they aren't identical, their existence seems to extend and revolve around one another. What he does, she does, and vice versa. How we have been able to get around having two of everything must truly be God's grace. That's not to say that things run smoothly all the time. On the contrary, our peaceful, productive days are often punctuated by explosions of three year-old fierce competition. Such was the case this morning.
More often than not now, the twins are able to work together toward common purposes or play goals. It's been a beautiful thing to behold - two lovely little toddlers stretching their creativity and minds. We have been hearing a steady stream of "Let's do it, Sissa!" and "Help me, Tarter!" (The twins are named Lisse and Karter, but you'd never know it.) Occasionally, we still have a day when their magnetism toward one another is more like a proximity alarm. Today, no matter what they've been engaged in, whether individually or cooperatively, the closer they came to one another, the louder the screams became.
It cracked me up to think of them both as proximity alarms. I thought these became disabled sometime after the separation anxiety stage of infanthood. Now if we can just get them to the stage where they are more like proximity sensors without the alarm. :)
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