So Janet and I were just talking about how we didn’t have any good side by side pictures of the babies yet, because they’re on such a short tether with all the wires and tubes… Well, I left my old digital camera there in one of the cribs, because one of the nurses had told us that they’d grab it and take a few pictures for us if the girls started doing anything interesting. I didn’t really expect much to come of that, but the extra camera wasn’t doing anything just sitting at home. So then I came back home last night and went to all that work in my previous post trying to construct a makeshift side by side comparison…
Then tonight, just before we left the hospital after visiting the girls, we decided on a whim to check the camera we had left there… And sure enough, sometime during the middle of the night, a couple of thoughtful nurses had taken exactly the kind of side by side pictures we’d been hoping for. Maybe they heard us talking about it, or maybe they just thought it was a cool idea. At any rate, here they are:
Side by side comparison 1
Side by side comparison 2
Notice the lack of identifying labels! Can you tell who is who? I cannot… But if my life depended on it, I would guess that Carolyn is on the left and Elizabeth on the right, simply because that’s what side their cribs are on. Obviously, that kind of external cue won’t help me much once they start crawling around and switching positions when I’m not looking. Maybe I’ll ask about installing RFID implant chips.
Different colored earrings and short hair so we can see the earrings; a visible, unique tatoo :-); anklets. You’ll probably see unique behavioral characteristics when you’re together 24×7. It’s the rest of us that may struggle if they are identical.