A friend of mine on the Prayer Team, who is also a twin mom, asked if Kris and I are identical or fraternal twins. I gave her my spiel about how we didn't know for sure, but assumed that we are fraternal because we look different and also because mom believed Grandpa Odell, the pathologist at the hospital, had told her as much after we were born. My friend encouraged us to be tested because "DNA can express differently." That was all I needed to hear before I bought us a DNA test. We decided the most fun way to learn the results would be a good ole cake reveal at our birthday party. I took the liberty to decide that the frosting on the inside our our birthday cake would be yellow if we were identical (primary color/monozygotic twins) or purple if we were fraternal (secondary color/dizygotic twins). After a delicious Mexican dinner at our favorite El Nido, we went back to the Sackies for the cake cutting. We polled everyone's guesses and then there was cheering and chanting as we cut the cake to reveal...YELLOW! There was a collective shock in the room...most especially from Mom! It's even more evident to me now how creative God is, that despite our DNA being the same, we are each so uniquely made. God is GOOD!
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| Collecting our sample! |
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