Ed & Ted

Ed and Ted, as you know, are twins.  They are miniature hedgehogs ... much smaller than the others and are often mistaken for babies.  They are always reminding everyone "We're not babies, we're just small!".  They puff up their arms to look muscley and walk around talking in growly voices to sound tough.  

They are exactly alike.  They are exactly the same size and color, their voices sound exactly the same, and they love it!  Only Julio (Coach) and Gustave can tell them apart.  They love being alike and tricking everyone who can't tell them apart.  If someone asks "which one is Ed?"  they both answer "I am!".  If they ask "which one is Ted?"  they again both answer "I am!".  Then they laugh and laugh.

When they grow up they say they want to be 6 ft 13" tall.  They dream of being in fight club, then everyone would know they're tough and definitely not babies.  

They idolize Guerrero and follow him around all the time.  They ask him often if he'll teach them some fancy ninja moves but he says they have no discipline and they're not ready.  Plus Guerrero would rather just sleep in the sun, he is a cat after all.  Sometimes when he's sleeping and the twins are restless and wanting him to teach them, they spy on him.  They stand in his sunshine and make shadows on him, hoping he'll wake up.  Then they pull open an eye to see if he's still sleeping ... when he doesn't acknowledge them they quietly back out of the room.  He always knows they're there, and often he's not even asleep when they come around, but he pretends to be so they'll leave him alone.

The whole gang was watching a show about Titanic on tv.  Everyone was very serious and a little sad about what happened ... until the narrator said "poop deck".  Ed and Ted looked at each other and tried very hard to keep a straight face but it was no use.  It was just too funny.  Ever since they've been giggling about it ... one will say "poop deck!" and they crack up laughing.

Recently they were outside having a great time spinning in the yard and making a lot of wind.  Coincidentally, the others were inside watching tv ... there was a big tornado on the news.  Ed and Ted were very excited about their whirlwind and came running in the room shouting "Hey, guess what we ....." then they saw the damage on tv, quietly backed out of the room.  I think they thought they caused it.

Last Christmas they were so excited to get leather suits from Santa.  They put them on and walked around acting and looking so tough.  They were standing together with their arms all flexed, making muscley poses, then Lola came along with her bedazzler.  She paused long enough to put a few sparkles on each of them, smiled sweetly at them and went on her way.  She thought they looked great!  They looked down at their sparkly leather suits, then at each other, unflexed and went to find something else to do.

They would like to get camouflage suits someday.  Maybe that's what they'll ask Santa for this year.  They think that if you wear camo you'll blend into wherever you are, like Freddy the chameleon.  Gustave tried to explain it to them that it doesn't work that way, but they still think it does.

They love to play games, especially checkers.  They yell out "King me!" after every move.  It drives the others crazy.