The 3 year olds and their mother, all from Negros Occidental, Philippines, are moving into a three-bedroom house in Scarsdale, N.Y. that is leased from the village by Westhab, a nonprofit organization that provides housing and social services for low-income families under a contract with Westchester County.

Since Arlene Aguirre has no income, the rent is being waived by the village and furniture has been donated.

“I am grateful for all the gifts Carl and Clarence and I have been given since we arrived here in the U.S.,” Aguirre said at a news conference at Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, as Clarence played a table game and Carl clung to the family’s social worker.

“The gift of a temporary place to call home is exciting because the boys and I can finally live like every other family in a home of our own,” she said.

Arlene said she was “a little scared and nervous” to go out on her own without the 24-hour support she’s had at Blythedale, but added, “I know I can handle it.”

Carl and Clarence will continue to get therapy and preschool sessions at Blythedale, through the 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. day session rather than 24 hours a day. The boys will be picked up at their home.

Though Arlene had her own room on Blythedale’s grounds, she tended to spend the nights in the room her sons shared with two other patients.

In Scarsdale, though, she plans to take advantage of a bedroom down the hall from the one her sons will share.

“I am going to sleep, by myself, in my own room,” she said. “I am going to sleep more than I did.”

The house has a yard, she said, and with winter coming, the boys “may want to play in the snow if they like it,” she said. “Me, I don’t think so. I don’t like it.”

The twins, who’s successful surgery in 2003 and 2004 separated them, have been living in at Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla for two years. They were flown to the U.S. by the Children’s Chance, Inc. of Waterbury, Connecticut, and the Philippine Airlines Foundation, which also coordinated and arranged the twins’ surgery and stay.

“I’m so happy and excited also,” Arlene said, “and I know it’s very hard to say goodbye to everybody, but I always know, and everybody knows, that all of you will remain a part of our lives.”

Arlene said she will make her kids adobo, and the idea of her very own kitchen seems to be what she thinks about most.

“I can cook Filipino food,” she said, “and we can sit and have breakfast and I can be in my pajamas and we don’t have to worry about who’s coming in.”