A father of twins was caught on camera making the biggest of slip-ups while calling out to his sons to come inside.
Kelly Laine’s blunder was captured on his doorbell cam. His fiancee, Madison Musick, who lives with him in Gonzales, Texas, saw it play out in real time on her phone and felt compelled to share it on social media. “I was watching live,” Musick told Newsweek, “They had just got home from day care.”
In the resulting video, which Musick shared to her TikTok @twinboymammaa, Laine can be heard calling over to one of their 2-year-old sons. “Kevin! Momma’s talking to you,” he says. “Come here, Liam, come say hi,” Laine then says to the other one of his sons, who is standing in close proximity.
At this juncture, the nearer of the two boys, who appears confused, makes several attempts at pointing out his dad’s mistake: he’s Kevin, not Liam. “Are you Kevin or are you Liam?” Laine asks before bending down to check something on the boy’s head, confirming what Kevin just said in the process.
“You are Kevin!” Laine says before bringing Kevin up to the doorbell camera to say hello to mom after another busy day.
Given Kevin and Liam’s age, 2, Laine can be forgiven for this lapse. After all, the first few years of parenthood are considered to be among the most stressful.
In a 2023 Pew Research Center poll, 57 percent of respondents with children in the youngest age group said they found being a parent tiring all or most of the time.
By contrast, 39 percent of those whose youngest child is 5 to 12 years old and 24 percent of those whose youngest child is a teenager said the same.
That didn’t make it any less amusing for Musick to watch, though. “I thought it was funny that he still has a hard time telling them apart after two years,” she said. “Kevin told him three times that he was Kevin before dad checked.”
Musick was not alone in expressing amusement at what happened. The video she uploaded to TikTok exploded, amassing nearly 38 million views.
“There are no better videos than twin babies having to tell their parents which twin they are,” one viewer said. “He kept trying to tell you,” another added.
Though Musick said there have been times in the past when she has struggled to tell them apart, the parents have a foolproof system in place for checking now.
“One of my boys has a little fold on his right ear, and the other doesn’t,” Musick said. “Their hair also parts two different ways. That’s how their day-care school tells them apart if they don’t know.”
After going viral with his blunder, something tells us the dad won’t be making the same mistake again.
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