Smitten But Sleep-Deprived! Sam & Sarah On Double Duty
New Zealand Woman's Weekly|March 29, 2021
They can’t imagine life without their twin treasures
Donna Fleming
Smitten But Sleep-Deprived! Sam & Sarah On Double Duty

Sam Wallace is cradling one of his adorable newborn daughters and talking about the challenges of having identical twins.

“The only way I can tell that this is Cosette is that she’s a little bit bigger than Sienna, she has a rounder face and, oh...”

He looks from the babe in his arms to her sister, who is being cuddled by her mum, Sam’s fiancée Sarah Bowman. “Umm, no, that’s Cosette, this is Sienna,” he corrects himself. “Hey, it’s hard! They’re identical!”

Radio host Sam admits that telling the tiny seven-week-old girls apart is tricky unless they are together.

“If they are both in front of me, it is easier because of the difference in size,” tells the doting dad. “Sienna is smaller and her features are more dainty. Cosette is a bit more rounded. Although it is getting harder now that Sienna is starting to catch up to Cosette. It was much more obvious when they were first born. But if I’ve just got one and someone asks which one it is, half the time I have no idea.”

And he’s not alone. Sarah also often has to compare her two wee girls to distinguish them from each other. But she’s hit on a clever solution so that they will be able to tell them apart in photos in the future – she tries to make sure Sienna is always on the left and Cosette is on the right.

In fact, the only one who has no problem knowing Sienna from Cosette is their big brother Brando, two.

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