[Celebrating their 8th birthday last year]

As May 10, of yet another year, comes into focus, I can feel the excitement and curiosity surrounding me as I busily put the perfect finishing birthday touches on each and every detail, preparing for the big day -- this year, my sextuplets turn NINE years old!! It's so very hard to believe!

Watching twin dad Brian Rosenworcel struggle but eventually succeed at getting his babies securely in a moby wrap takes me back to those hazy early months of no sleep, learning how to juggle, and inadvertent bed head. Twins! They are wonderful and magical and amazing -- and they also make you do some strange things. Funny things. Things like Rosenworcel does with his twins Nico and Marshal.

Sure this video is disguised as a tutorial on how to put twins in a moby wrap -- not an easy feat as you will see from the several failed attempts. But it's also what this dad does after his little bundles are all tucked in safe.

I don't know where to begin with this story, so I'm just going to dive in. Seven years ago, a mom gave birth to a set of twin boys. One was perfectly healthy. The other was born with a rare disfigurement that has essentially given him only half a face. And now Henry and Oliver Machin's mom is sharing their photo with the world so she can talk about something pretty dark and disturbing.

For years, Charlene Machin said she did not love one of her sons. In fact, when she talks about her child, her little boy born with a left eye, ear, and nostril that never developed, she uses words like "waves of terror" and "grief."

There are certainly unique challenges that parents of multiples face. But just like every child is different, every family -- whether there is one child or ten -- deals with their own set of specific issues. People -- most often strangers -- say some strange things to parents of singletons addressing some of these "issues" they think parents of one child have. And parents of twins, triplets, or any number of multiples get our share of off-putting comments. I have twins. I get bombarded with intrusive quips from people I don't know often.

With most things, it's often not what you say but how you say it. There should also be a boundary of how far you dig into a stranger's personal life. If some of these comments came from friends, it would be different, but it can be upsetting when it comes from an unfamiliar face. Here are eight things you should never say to moms of multiples.

When I spotted the recent photo of Anna Paquin taking a leisurely stroll with her twins, I was mesmerized. It wasn't really the True Blood actress that got my attention, it was that amazing double baby carrier she was sporting. I must have single-child tunnel vision because I had actually never seen one before. It made me wonder about all those other cool products for moms of multiples that I never even considered. I discovered some really great baby gear for twins. (And I'm not just talking about double strollers.) Check it out.

What other cool twins products have you seen or used?

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OMG, Truebies. I was starting to think this day might never come, but at last -- at LONG, LONG last -- Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer have announced the genders of their newborn twins!!! OMG! Of course ... we still don't know what they named the babies. Nope, not yet. Why? Well, I guess learning the genders AND names of True Blood's first official twins on the same day would just be asking for waaaaay too much. Who knows?

Maybe, just maybe, we can't handle the truth. Maybe if we were forced to process all that info at once, we would just explode, like a bunch of vampires meeting the True Death! Look, Truebies -- you can't always get what you want ... but if you try sometimes, you might find ... you get what you need. And here it is:

Big birthweight babies have a bad rap. Moms hear 12-pound baby, and they cringe. But a set of babies dubbed the world's heaviest triplets have left me appreciating just how lucky some of us are to never have worried about how much our babies weighed.

When Brittany and Jason Deen's three sons came into the world, the doctors added up their three birthweights. Together, they topped the Guinness record of 18 pounds, 11 ounces. Come on, make your guesses!

There are plenty of cute kid videos that go viral and make us oooh and awww, but this one takes cuteness to a whole new level. First of all there are twins involved, which always adds an extra adorable factor, but these twins in particular are just the happiest little rays of sunshine you've ever seen. 

They're sitting side-by-side in their high chairs eating peas when dad starts playing his guitar. The minute they hear the chords start, they know it's on, and they start rocking out. Watch it after the jump, but be prepared for some major cuteness overload. You seriously have to have a heart of coal if this doesn't at least make you smile.