Unfortunately, since they live in Florida, we only get to see them about twice a year if we're lucky (blessed) enough. It's been a bit sad to be so far from his closest cousins. Because I have a large extended family, Jackson has tons of second cousins and third cousins and kids we consider family although no blood ties are involved at all. And of course, he has dog cousins also. So he hasn't been deprived of the kind of huge family events I had growing up with my 23 first cousins and innumerable second cousins. But we're sad we don't get to see Jackson grow up alongside Ian's brother's kids.
But Bright Flower will have a local cousin to grow up with. My brother and sister-in-law are expecting their first child 6 weeks after Bright Flower is due. They live about a mile from us so theoretically we should be able to see them more often than we do the other cousins. Of course, they're planning to move around the time the baby is born. Something about LA not being a great place to raise a kid (as if the OC is going to be that much better!!).
It's been fun going through pregnancy with my sister-in-law. I didn't get this experience with my other sister-in-law when she was expecting Kaitlyn. We didn't know we were pregnant when our families got together when Becky was 4 months pregnant and baby cousin Kaitlyn was 6 weeks old the next time we saw them when I was 7 months pregnant.
But Amy and I have been able to do some side by side comparisons. Here's some footage of our belly profile comparisons (and some bonus footage of Jackson shot on Mother's Day).
Clarice
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i love that the 2 pics of jackson are of him sticking food into his mouth!
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