Boavida Cousins

When I was pregnant with Keira, my sister Flavia was also pregnant with her first child. It was fun being pregnant together for the first time- we had fun baby shopping together, sharing ultrasounds and reading "What to Expect when you are Expecting together. She had a beautiful baby boy Jaime Joseph 7 weeks before I had my beautiful baby girl Keira. My parents were so estatic to have one grandson and grand daughter at the same time . What a mix they got too as Jaime is half Scottish and Keira is half Niuean.

Fast forward 2 years later, I was expecting twins and my sister was also pregnant with her second boy. All our extended family teased us about planning to get pregnant together again. However this time around, with our toddlers in tow - there was not much time for baby shopping bonding! Liam McKenzie was born 6 weeks after the twins Montana and Lucas. My parents went from zero grand kids to 5 in two years!

When we are all together at my parents place - it is  fun but chaotic! Keira and Jaime getting into all sorts of mischief in the backyard or fighting over a toy, a book or grandpa, babies crying - needing to be fed, changed or held, my sister and I attending to a baby or breaking up a fight with the older two, my mum trying to cook and my dad holding which ever baby is crying.  So it is not suprising that it took us over 4 months to get a picture of all 5 grand kids for the first time when we went for a visit last week.

Take 1 = fail haha

So we tried a different pose = better

No tears or tantrums = As good as it gets.

All 5 Boavida cousins - Jaime (2.9), Montana (6 months), Keira (2.7), Lucas (6 months)and Liam (4 months) :)