Cute Cousins

MacTroll's oldest brother came to visit the other day with his three children. X-man adores his cousins and hates that he only sees them twice a year. Usually we go out in the spring and they come in August... but this year they came for Christmas. We only got to host them for a few short hours. But it was a good time and left both families yearning for more time together, so we'll be heading out to Baltimore over Memorial Day weekend.

But here are some photos of X-man with his (newly) six-year-old cousin SuperSam at our house. Can you tell they bonded, even though they're polar opposites? (SuperSam is a completely sweet neat freak... and X-man loves chaotic messes and convincing people that the sky is, indeed, green, not blue. But clearly they've worked out some kind of Odd Couple routine because that arm around the shoulder thing in the second photo -- completely SuperSam's natural instinct.)