The first time I noticed their bond was when they were 3 months old. We had to put Laci in the hospital for a week because of a very bad infection. That was the first time since they were born that they had slept apart. I stayed at the hospital with Laci and my husband and mother-in-law stayed home with Lexis.

When they came to visit each morning we seemed to have the same complaints; neither girl was sleeping, at all. After about two days it was safe to bring Lexis to visit her sister. As soon as she arrived we placed her in the hospital crib with Laci and they both reached out their hands until they were touching one another, and promptly went to sleep.

They slept for 4 or 5 straight hours never moving away from each other. To this day, they can't sleep if one isn't in the house, and even though they fight like cats and dogs, one will not leave the house without the other.

Tina Wells

Cocoa, Florida