twins & christmas cards.. who's name goes first?!

twinmom2012

My b/g twins should be here any day now.. just curious, whose name do you list first on the Christmas card.. the "oldest"??  I also have a 3 yr old boy. Was thinking to put boy-boy-girl. or would you put boy-girl-boy (if the girl came first?)

Mrs.Greg

We put DD1, then Baby A, then Baby B.  If I had three kids and no twins, I would put them in order of their age, oldest to youngest.  And techinically Baby A is older than Baby B. 

leslie13510

We go oldest to youngest for all of us, but I really don't think it's an issue that requires a lot of thought.    It's not a big deal either way, as long as everyone's name is on the card. 

kthappy76

I just ordered TY notes with our names on them and listed them by age, baby A (boy) then baby B (girl) after DH and me.

Mrs. Alice

I've just gotten used to putting baby A's name first, so thats what we did.

pea-kay

I put them in the order that they're in for the picture on the card, and if there's no picture (or more than one) then I do birth order.

JosiePosy

I went in order of how they were pictured. L just happened to be on he left so her name was first. It also happened to be their borth order.

MrsLnt

It's always birth order. Which almost always works with pictures because we go L-R with them - DS, the firstborn is always on the left and DD is on the right. 

Rangergal9

We always put Lily then Hannah since Lily was baby a.

Fancy3Face

We list them in birth order usually.  When we have another child we'll list all three kids in birth order (Mack, Annabel, Baby #3, etc).  

mommyof4boys

I alternate.  We haven't let the boys know who is older and we asked family do the same.

babya2010

Birth order here. I almost always have DD on the left in pictures as well, since she was first-born.

meagamomma2be

I always right my kids names down in birth order, even if it's just signing them in at the childcare at the gym.  I think when you have 3 or more it helps as a way to keep track.  However, you could always do the order they are pictured. 

lrrb

I always just say Nora and Nolan - I don't know why...Nolan is 5 minutes older haha.  I also have two older girls so many I'm just putting all the girls first then our boy last....I don't think it really matters!

jk43008

i write mine in the order i think it sounds best...which is actually opposite of their birth order.  even when i am talking about them together i always say "s and o".  not sure why, but I notice that pretty much everyone says their names in that order, not sure f it is because that is the way my husband and i do or if it is just the way it sounds "right"/

browneyedgrl4282

I always do birth order so Preston, Jordana, and Brady. Of course Preston is only a minute older. My stupid brother things I should say screw birth order and Preston, Brady, and Jordana because it is PB&J but that would be Older Twin, Youngest, and 2nd born twin.

UsedToBeGoldie

i usually list my kids names in birth order when i'm writing a card or something but this year i did their names in the order they are on the photo... which happened to be DS1, DS3, DS2.... sure, the twins are 2min apart, and I will never let them play the "i'm older" game with each other- but it's just easier for me to do it by age normally.

Haven1

Funny you should ask about this.  I stressed a GREAT deal about what order to call the boys before they got here. So much that I even ventured over to the scary Baby Names board. I was afraid that Luke and Sam would get called Luke and Laia Skywalker, and that Sam and Luke would get called Bo and Luke Duke.

A MoM over there (Goldie maybe?) gently told me I was over-thinking it juuuuust a little bit.

In the end, I call them Sam and Luke. We picked the name Sam first, and even though Luke is 45 seconds older, Sam just seems to sound better first.

ougrad1

Exactly what I would do.   GL on the babies and delivery.  : )

macchiatto

I mix it up, or do like peakay said and put them in the order they're pictured. They really don't look alike but some long-distance relatives and friends don't necessarily know which name goes with which face so I like to help them out a little.

We don't think of one as "older" than the other since they are the same age in any meaningful sense (and who knows who was conceived first ), though I certainly get why other people do so and don't think it's a big deal either way.

cocojack10

Birth order, even if just seconds apart (which happened to be alphabetical order in my case).  : )

flutepharm87

We put the names in order of how they sound best. Jackson and Ian has a better ring to it than Ian and Jackson. The fact that Jack was born first is coincidence.

smit3807

I pretty much always say "Harper and Tannah", which is birth order, but also alphabetical order.