"Like a football," Annie advised helpfully, just casual enough to hopefully not come across as condescending. "And yeah, so far they're both little dreams. I mean, we'll see how that holds up once they're walking."

And considering the twins already refused to sleep at the same time, she was already anticipating their developmental milestones hitting at slightly different times, and had visions of a walking Maggie boosting a crawling Ben from his crib, somehow.