My Five Year Old Twins Are Finding Independence 

When you are five years old it never ceases to amaze me how quickly children change and develop, and my five year old twins are no different to other children.

In school they have recently been moved up a level in their reading books which was very pleasing to see. Both the girls recognition of words is frightening. They are at the tender age of five, but they’re becoming quite accomplished readers and making only the occasional mistake. It’s really amazing how they develop the ability to read.

I have noticed other changes in the girls which I also find fascinating.

My twins have always been asleep by 7pm every night which is fantastic as it allows mummy and daddy to have some down time and relaxation during the evening. Of course the downside of them going early to bed is they wake early in the morning. In our case my twin girls are awake and raring to go at 6am This is where I have seen another change in the girls.

My twin girls have always found their way into our bed at sometime during the night. Occasionally I will feel them getting into bed, other times I wake up to see them cuddled up to either mummy or daddy. If I’m honest I’m not really bothered as long as we all get a full nights sleep, and we do have a super king size bed so actually there is plenty of room. I know some don’t agree with co-sleeping and I totally respect that, for me though it has never been a problem, I’m sure they will grow out of it soon enough. I wrote a post some time ago called How many of us co-sleep with our children. 

I noticed over the last week or so that the girls are waking up in the morning and sitting in the middle of us chatting away. Of course they think I am asleep, well I am kind of, but curiosity gets the better of me and I end up listening with my eyes closed. I actually have no idea what  they are talking about in fact it makes no sense whatsoever to me. They change their names, they are no longer R or M and quite often name themselves from their friends in school. Their conversation is usually along the lines of  putting the world to rights, that is according to a five year old haha! It takes all my willpower not to burst out laughing at some of things they say!

On Sunday this took a step further than it had before, normally the girls don’t leave the bedroom until one of us has woken up, which I might add is usually me because all I can hear from the other side of the bed is yes you guessed it, my wife snoring her head off, in fact I’m convinced if North Korea dropped a nuclear warhead in our drive she would sleep through it. Haha!

So on Sunday my five year old twins actually got up and disappeared out of the bedroom leaving us asleep. It’s ok though the house is locked up with no keys around and we live in a bungalow so no stairs to negotiate. We always turn the TV to CBeebies the night before and they know how to turn the telly on so they are happy.

When I eventually got out of bed at 7am, yes you guess it my wife is still snoring! When I walked into the lounge to my amazement my five year old twin girls were dressed and playing with toys  together making up games only a five year old could while watching TV now and again. I’m pretty sure they didn’t even see me. Haha!

The most interesting and fascinating thing for me is time flies at such a speed, because it really doesn’t seem like yesterday that they were little babies and totally reliant on mum and dad for everything. Of course they are still very reliant on us for lots of things, but they are starting to show huge independence in sorting things out for themselves. Which of course is all a part of growing up.

If I could, I think it would be wonderful to get inside the mind of a five year or in my case five year old twins to find out what is going on. The innocence of children is truly awesome.

Would love to know your thoughts. Do you ever marvel at your little ones behaviour.