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Happy Birthday, Monroe & Moroccan! Mariah Carey & Nick Cannon’s Twins Turn 1

As the adorable babies celebrate their birthday, look back at the first photos the family released of the little cuties (15 Photos)

Cristina M. De Oliveira on Apr 29, 2012 at 8:48PM

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Happy Birthday, Monroe & Moroccan! Mariah Carey & Nick Cannonâ��s Twins Turn 1

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Double the Fun!

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon kept their twins Monroe and Moroccan Cannon out of the public eye until they were 5-months-old. Then, the adorable babies made their small-screen debut on 20/20 with Barbara Walters. Their proud parents followed up their TV spot by unveiling a website dedicated to their bundles of joy, Dembabies.com, an ode to the nicknames they gave them in utero. "We deliberated for so long about how to reveal the first pictures of our babies to the world. We just didn't want to do the typical thing and display them in a tabloid (not that there's anything wrong with that)," the couple writes on their site about photos like this shot of the singer cuddling with her son and daughter (all from the sale of the photos will go to the Fresh Air Fund's Camp Mariah for inner-city teens). "We decided to share this beautiful experience with you in a special intimate portrait of our family."