Children

Family Reunion #1 was very crowded in the Under 5 division. All of a sudden, we have lots of little cousins. Most of them are second or third cousins, some in-law, some many times removed, but we still get a lot of face time.

This is Leah, of Portland, posing for a glamour shot* with her hippo:



And these are Sammy and Emilie, of Paris, eating ice cream:



(Not pictured are Emilie's twin, Benjamin, and also Beth, Daniel, and Arielle.)

Someday they will be grown-ups and they won't even remember that I thought they were cute when they were little.

*According to Sharon Olds, glamour comes (etymologically) from grammar. She discovered this as part of her preparations for speaking to Glamour magazine about publishing poetry. Alas, they passed on the whole thing and never called her back.