Zahra and Penelope spend all their time together. And most of the time, they really seem to enjoy one another's company.

Moin and I have discussed from time to time that we need to separate them more. When they start school we want to be sure that they'll be in different classrooms and preschool is only one year away (yikes!) so we should probably put more effort in to taking them separate places.

It's hard though, because the girls are either being watched by one person (and therefore have to be together) OR if both Moin and I are both home and able to separate kids it most often makes sense to separate Quinn from his sisters (ahem).

Anyway, today when Moin got home from work I attempted to take Zahra get my iced tea refill (yes) from Dunn brothers. Mind you this is a 10-minute trip TOPS and I thought Zahra would be excited to spend alone time with mom.

This was her reaction.

She cried and cried, and just pointed to the other carseat yelling "Pee-pee, PEE-PEE!!!!" (current version of Penelope)
She was NOT happy without her sister.

And really, who can blame her? Aside from the three weeks separated in the NICU these girls have always been together. And even there they managed to sneak in some time :)

They've always slept in the same room, and even in the same crib for a while.

So yes, we'll have to keep working on this whole separation thing. Luckily they've still got that year until preschool!