earlier this month, we got the chance to visit with some special cousins, chely and kayalá. their mother ali is my second cousin, and she and i were very close growing up. her dad and my dad were first cousins -- their fathers were best friends who married sisters, so the two families spent lots of time together. our dads are closer than cousins, sort of a cross between brothers and best friends. when they grew up, married, and had children of their own, those families then in turn spent lots of time together, including many weekend visits and extended summer vacations together. interestingly, the age difference between ali's father jerry and my dad is almost exactly the same as the age difference between ali and me, and between chely and bebe.
since chely and her family live in guatemala, i know that she and bebe will probably never get the chance to be quite as close as ali and i were, if only because they won't get to spend nearly as much time together. but on this particular day, it was really fun to watch bebe follow chely around, looking up to her as the cool older cousin who knew -- and could do -- so much more than she, just as i used to look up to ali.
since chely and her family live in guatemala, i know that she and bebe will probably never get the chance to be quite as close as ali and i were, if only because they won't get to spend nearly as much time together. but on this particular day, it was really fun to watch bebe follow chely around, looking up to her as the cool older cousin who knew -- and could do -- so much more than she, just as i used to look up to ali.
it was also fun to watch all the jumping.
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a fun time was had by all! love from the cousins in Central America...
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