The Twins in Japan

No, we are not going to Japan anytime soon, but I just received the following message in my YouTube inbox this morning:

Urgent Request from FujiTV Network(yumi-arima)

Dear an9elkatie,

My name is Yumi Arima writing from Fuji Television Network. We are the biggest nation-wide broadcasting network in Japan.
I am currently working on a program titled "Tokudane," which is a weekly morning show (Mon-Fri), owning hundreds of thousands of viewers. In our program, there is a segment introducing funny and/or astonishing videos from around the world. We are known as the biggest TV broadcaster which introduces such videos in Japan.

For its upcoming episode, we are very much interested in your video " Twin talk ", and we wish to have your permission that allows us to use your video on our morning show.
Please contact me　by replying this message or via my email:yumi.arima@with1.fujitv.co.jp

I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you very much.
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Sincerely yours

Arima Yumi

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Fuji television network
Yumi Arima
Tell:+81-3-5500-8383
Fax:+81-3-5500-8068

So, if anyone who reads this happens to be in Japan this week, make sure to tune in to "Tokudane" and keep your eyes peeled for Caleb and Joshua in Twin Talk!

The Twins on TV

On March 30th, Granny called to tell us that she'd just seen Caleb and Joshua on "Inside Edition" of TV. As it turns out, the TV show had aired a video of the twins that I'd posted on YouTube about 4 years ago. It's entitled "Twin Talk" and features 18-month-old Caleb and Joshua "talking" to each other in their own twin language. This all happened in the wake of another video of talking toddler twins that swept the web a couple days earlier. I knew something was up when I started receiving dozens of notifications every few hours that people had commented on this particular video. It wasn't until nearly a week later, however, that I noticed the following message in my YouTube inbox:

Interview Request

My name is Sarah Rubenstein and I work for the US television show Inside Edition. I'm very interested in interviewing you about your twins video of Caleb and Joshua playing and laughing together

Recently a video of twins has gone viral where it appears that the twins are talking to each other. It brings up the age-old question about whether twins have special communication skills between the two of them.

We are on a tight deadline and would need to conduct the interview at a satellite studio within the next four hours.

Please call or e-mail me to discuss further. I'm reachable at 212-817-5472 and at Srubenstein@cbs.com

Sincerely,
Sarah Rubenstein
Assignment Editor
Inside Edition
555 West 57th Street, Suite 1300
New York, NY 10019

Alas, I didn't even see this message til nearly a week past the 4-hour deadline! Oh well, I console myself with the fact that I've already earned over $100 in revenues from ads aired on "Twin Talk" and that the video has over 400,000 hits. I never would have imagined any of this when I posted this video for the enjoyment of a few family and friends four years ago. It just goes to show that you never know what you post on the internet might show up on TV and be seen by nearly half a million people a few years later!

Twins Triumphant on Two Wheels

March was a big month for the twins. They reached a major milestone when they learned to ride their two-wheel bikes without training wheels. In fact, they never used training wheels at all. It only took them about 30 minutes to get the hang of riding two-wheelers, having already learned how to balance on their Mini Glider balance bikes. Caleb and Joshua learned to ride on the very same church parking lot where I used to practice riding my bike (and later, driving a car) in the days of yore. The boys caught on a lot more quickly than I did, though, and within a couple days of first learning to ride, they were already navigating the neighborhood sidewalks along the dozen or so blocks to Mimi and Papa's house. Moses felt left out whenever the twins departed on their bike rides, so I bought a second-hand Burley bike trailer on Craigslist, and now we can all ride together as a family. After his first ride in the trailer, Moses proudly told Mimi, "I ride in a cage!"