Cousin Molly

I often feel sad that my children are growing up without their extended family around them. As a child myself sometimes we lived close to family other times far away. During my teenage years we lived close to both my Grandparents and cousins from the Reymer family. My cousin Karen was closest to me in age so she was my "favourite" cousin. Now Karen lives about 2 hours away in Bargo so she often visits with her daughter Molly. As was the case last week. It was the first time the boys have been able to interact with Molly (last time she was a newborn) as she is now 7 months old. It was so interesting to me to see how they fared. The first day they ignored her! The second they warmed up a little and often found her things they thought she would be amused by. The third day they were all over it! Matthew even read her a bedtime story!

It started beautifully...

until he found it hard to see around her moving head...

He found a way around this problem......

and Molly started to really enjoy it......

until her 2 second attention span was diverted by Ryan.....


and everything fell over!

It makes me a little sad that the boys will never have the experience of looking after a baby sibling because I think it really promotes responsibility and I think that they would really rise to the occasion. But by the same token I wouldn't swap the kinship that they all currently share! And they will just have to practise on other peoples babies!