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I don't have twins, but can you gate one and set up a pack and play somewhere and throw the other in that? I did have two kids (mine and another) daily from the time they were 11 months-18, so I felt like I had twins for those 10 hours a day! I would just run outside quickly to grab groceries from the car and leave them both in the house and hope for the best. I like to laugh in the face of danger...

Can you install the two seats next to each other? That way you could get them both from the same door? Have the one in the middle climb out over the other seat to get out?

@meadow: I'm just thinking you'll have this logistics issue no matter where you are. How will you get them out at the grocery store?

@meadow: keep some toys in the pack and play and I'm sure they could be entertained for a minute or two. My daycare kiddie slept in a pack and play and sometimes when he wouldn't sleep he'd just chill in there for a bit with some toys or a book. I will say I did try and put my non sleeping 23 month old in it the other day to try and keep her confined for a nap instead of her running around her bedroom. It then watched her easily hoist her leg over the side and easily climb out....but I would assume your kids aren't at that point yet, I hope!

@meadow: the stroller could actually be a good idea and help you out. I just trad a previous comment.

@meadow: mine arent twins but they are kind of wild and climbers so I get where you're coming from. Honestly I would just stick them in a safe area in the house and shut the door and pull the car in as quickly as possible. Not sure how they play indoors (run of the house? Gated area? Or just constantly supervised?) but I picture this taking a minute tops. Otherwise I think a pnp would be fine, or if their room/s is/are on the same level maybe the crib.

I don't have twins but I've never had an issue sticking my now 17 month old in the house or leaving her alone while I switch the laundry in the basement or get dressed upstairs (also she's my second). I wouldn't say our house is super duper safe, but she's totally fine for the 2 minutes it would take (I've been down no similar things for months). We don' t have any stairs gated (we have 3 sets of two steps leading into our living room, and the stairs going to the upstairs are off the entry), and maybe I'm taking a risk but we didn't do much baby-proofing (the blenders and knives aren't reachable, and we don't use chemical cleaners, but we also taught them how to safely do potentially dangerous things like walking up and down stairs versus climbing when we realized trying to stop them wasn't effective). Also at 16 months they can probably crawl out of their car seats and onto the floor and over to you fine so you could pull into the garage and the twin on the tough side could crawl out. And one last thing but my daughter often just watches me bring stuff back and forth from the car--can they see you from the door? That's probably enough.

We have a lot of big families where we live (we have two neighbors who each have 8 kids, with 2 sets of twins per family, and 4 kids isn't a lot around here), so even though I only have two that's helped my perspective. I try to think, what would they do in a family that size? When one set of twins was 3 and the other set of twins were newborns someone (or two or three) was going to be left standing in the hallway crying.

I know you said you can’t maneuver the infant seat out of the car while you’re in the garage...but have you tried yet with their “big kid” seats? You might be able to squeeze in enough to just unbuckle one (and let him/her walk across to meet you at the other door), or be able to lift LO completely out of the door short on space. Infant seats are huge and hard to finagle!