Merry Christmas! With all the Cousins!

"I really love Oliver. I love him when he's not nice, and when he's happy to me and when he's sad to me. And I'm really happy to get to spend time with him. " - Aidan, this morning at breakfast. We came home for a couple days and are heading back to tomorrow to spend the rest of the week with the family, then everyone has to leave on Monday. The truth is, that the ones we love the deepest are the ones we get to work out the most "stuff" with. Aidan and Oliver have spent a lot of time together this week and I'm afraid they are both going to be pretty sad to not get to play with one another come next week. We are all going to be sad to see the family go, it will be hard to watch my little niece or nephew growing in my sister's tummy, from afar. And it will be sad to to see all my sweet nieces and nephews leave, and my dear brothers and dear sisters go back to their lives. I just wish we were all closer. Well, I guess one can hope and pray :) We've had an interesting week, Oliver got the flu, then Ellis, Andrea, San, Jacob, Mom, Dad, Dan, who's next? As you can imagine, I have a ton of photos to upload but have been pretty busy this week. So busy that I've forgotten to clean (I clean an office once a week), and then I was supposed to clean tonight and I left the keys in Orting! Oh well :) I just had to share some of the cute pictures of the kids playing together and share that cute story of what Aidan said this morning about Oliver, it's not the first time he's mentioned how much he loves his cousin (or "friend" as he usually refers to him), it's been a wonderful time getting acquainted with everyone! We hope it wont be so long between visits.