When there's a thirteen year gap between kids, it's nice to fill that with cousins--not quite siblings, but almost. The Ariases help with that on a regular basis, but last week we went to upstate New York to visit Paul's brother and his lovely family. They have five kids under the age of ten, so Seth had plenty of little people to play with. Two year olds still kind of do the parallel play thing, but he obviously enjoyed their company and did get quite a bit of nonsense going with them--good stuff!
Paul's brother Ben is a very young bishop of a very old ward--it's kind of like the President Monson thing, only I don't think there are THAT many widows! But it's a lot to deal with. However, their family is happy and are being blessed for his service.
We did some sight-seeing: Corning Glass Museum (love that place!), Penn-Dixie Paleontology site (found lots of fossils including two trilobites), the Smith Family Farm and E.B. Grandin Print Shop. It was all glorious. Wish you could have been there!
