Nicholas had fun too. He doesn't have any cousins yet, so my college friends' kids sort of serve that role. We get together a couple times a year and the dynamic is pretty similar to what I remember with my cousins growing up. The girls who all lived together are like the siblings (sitting around chatting, reminiscing, with our own culture), the husbands are the in-laws (sitting around watching football and making small talk), and the kids bounce around between all the adults (who they are familiar with and comfortable around and yet see so rarely as to be exciting).
Anyway, Nicholas loved watching the "big kids" (Matthew, 4, and Emily, 2) run around and made friends with Audrey (11 months). Not to mention all the toys that Audrey has that he hasn't seen before. And a bunch of adults who love to play.
Here the kids are playing nicely:
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We tried to get a group picture, with only marginal success. First they were too distracted by toys:
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And then we made the mistake of putting the two littlest ones next to each other. Audrey grabbed ahold of Nicholas' collar and pulled him down onto her lap.
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The kids were stunned, but the adults couldn't stop laughing.
It's good to have friends like that - and I think Audrey is simply a girl who knows what she wants! Good for her!
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