This past week Audrey's and Grace's cousins Sage and Bryce have been visiting from Las Vegas and her local cousins Jane and Trever have joined the party as well. That's six cousins who have been mixing it up at our house this week.
Having the Vegas boys around has reinforced how different it is to have boys in the house versus girls though (keep in mind I'm the only male in my household). They spend a lot of their time beating on each other, eating and playing video games - basically what you'd expect pre-adolescent boys to do. Audrey gets amped up and runs around after them but mainly hangs with Jane who is also older and who Audrey looks up to like no other. Trever is a year younger than Audrey and enjoys driving his battery-powered, toddler-sized car around the house. And generally my wife and I try to keep baby Grace out of harm's way. (One of the cousins forgot she can't yet walk and set her down on her feet to stand by accident - she was fine but you get the drift.)
Audrey is really loving it. Being a 3-year-old and having all your cousins around is like being... well, a kid in a candy store. But only because they are all eating so much sugar all the time. (What are you supposed to say when your daughter wants candy that her three cousins are munching on right in front of her?) She is really going to miss them when all of them are gone.
Meanwhile our house is a bit like a revolving door. Mi casa su casa, as they say.
