Color challenged

Every time we go out with the twins, people come to us to ask us about them. It is indeed unusual to see twins. Here in Singapore families have one and sometimes two children. When we say we have four children people get suprised.

What I have found interesting is that in general, people cannot recognize if they are boy or girl. They usually ask if they are both boys. I used to find this question strange because we always dress Hannah in pink and Christian in blue, so it was evident they were boy AND girl... but, was that evident?

Now I realize people here do not necesarily dress girls in pink or boys in blue. For them, pink or blue means nothing and thus they cannot distinguish their gender by the color of their clothes. In our culture kids dress in those colors and thus we immediately assumed gender would be self evident. Not so much. Now we know that assumption is wrong here in Singapore (and I suspect in much of Asia).