Depends. I tend to say "my kids" more to people I don't know (like if I'm making small talk showing a house). I do say "my girls" or "the girls" a lot.
I go back and forth. When people call them "the girls" it annoys my wife. But my sister has twins boys and I have twin girls, so "the boys" and "the girls" is sort of inevitable I think. When we're talking to each other we usually say "the kids" or sometimes still "the babies."
Generally, I refer to the older two as "the boys" to DH and "the big boys" to friends/family. DS3 is pretty much always referred to as "the baby" even though he's over a year now.
Post by DarcyLongfellow on Jun 3, 2016 10:57:28 GMT -5
"the girls" pretty much exclusively. Both sets of grandparents do the same.
Remember that 90's movie Playing By Heart with a young Angelina Jolie, Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, and Ryan Phillipe? A friend of mine was annoyed with that movie because she felt the "twist" (if you can call it that) was easy to guess because anyone with three daughters would refer to "the girls" and never to "the kids."
I always said the girls before my youngest was born, not weird at all. We still refer to them as that now when they're going somewhere the toddler isn't, etc.
Hell I have two girls and 1 boy and for years before DS came we referred to them as the girls and then DS came and sometimes we still slip and say the girls. . Whoops. Poor DS is going to have a complex.