An adorable viral video shows the moment a twin mum tries to play a trick on her children – but they are not fooled.
In the TikTok clip, one of the twins, named Heidi, leaves her two daughters in the kitchen and hurries downstairs. She then swaps places with twin Hannah – who is dressed in the exact same outfit as her – who heads back upstairs and starts vacuuming to test the children’s reaction.
Almost as soon as they look up, the kids realise something isn’t right. The younger daughter looks at her aunt quizzically and starts following her around the room, before the older daughter then decides to confront the fake mum directly. Identifying her straight away as her aunt, she asks: “Hannah? Who are you? I said who are you?”
Hannah then insists ‘I’m mommy’, to which she replies: “Where’s my real mommy?”. Hannah says “I am your real mommy”, but the girl remains unconvinced, and begins searching around the house for her.
Noticing her nail polish, she then tells her: “You’re Hannah! You have purple toes”, adding: “You don’t look the same.” She then pulls a smartphone out of Hannah’s pocket and tells her “you have that different phone” – a piece of incontrovertible evidence which finally sees her aunt give in.
“Okay”, she says, “I came here to play”. The older daughter, still confused, asks “where’s my real mommy?”, and Hannah tells her she is downstairs, with her own children. In the final part of the clip, the real Heidi returns to the kitchen and asks “Am I mommy?”, to which the girl says: “Yeah!”
Many viewers seemed impressed with the children’s keen attention to detail – and joked that they weren’t even sure many spouses would notice that quickly. One wrote: “Now do it with the husband…it will take him all day!”, while another said: “Those kids have better survival skills than most adults.” Another person said it proved children are much more discerning than people sometimes believe, and commented: “We don’t give kids enough credit for their insights & ability to notice things. She clocked that SO fast!”
The two sisters run the ‘livingadoublelifestyle’ account on the social media platform about their life as twins and as parents. In once recent clip, the pair tried the ‘twin swap’ trick again on Heidi’s husband as they worked out in the gym. As commenters predicted, he did take longer to notice, and seemed to only realise it was not his wife when she walked over and told him.
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