Thursday, July 28, 2011

cousin love.

it has been a year since we have seen my sweet and adorable niece, molly. she is just two days younger than choi boy. and in fact, my sister-in-law's due date when she was pregnant with mollypop is choi boy's actual birthday. how cool is that? love it. :)

choi boy and i are in chicago visiting my sister-in-law and her family. one of the best parts about this trip has been seeing molly and cb together. such.ridiculous.sweetness.
i die.

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yup, i just keeled over. mmmhmmm.

it's funny because even though they are only two days a part, they are different in so many ways. first off, choi boy is a good bit taller than his cousin, though she clearly wins in the chunk department.

which is absolutely acceptable when you are not even 2 and this cute:
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ohmygosh i just want to bite those cheeks!

molly is also a total chatterbox and talks in near complete sentences. i am in awe and could listen to her talk all day long. she is a genius. and i'm her aunt, so i can totally show her off and say that with no qualms. ;)

mollypop uses her extensive vocabulary and language skills to be a total bossypants to choi boy. it's hilarious. and cb is fine with being bossed around. or, so it seems, because he doesn't have the words to protest. ha!

we've been joking that molly and cb are like pebbles and bam bam.

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molly is cuteness and smarts and choi boy is all brute force and slightly caveman-ish. ;)

regardless of their differences, they've been having such a blast together...they even wake up asking for each other. or, rather, molly wakes up and clearly enunciates cb's name while cb wakes up and goes, "ah-ee!" :)

look at all the fun they've been having!
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this is what happens when you get two toddlers to look at you and say, "cheese!" -- no small feat, for sure.

and here are some stinkin' cute shots of molly directing cb in their play.
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all i can say is, girl power. :)

one thing choi boy and molly do have in common, however, is their love of food.
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i think they could both easily join adam richman's man vs. food nation team. don't you?

and their crossed feeties could be their trademark:
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love it!

so thankful for cousin love...can't wait to see these two grow up together!
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lots more on our chi-town adventures to come!

19 comments:

  1. Gasp! Choi boy's real name in a post?! :)

    These are some cute cousins!

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  2. heehee, not anymore!! dude, you have some eagle eyes! ;)

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  3. Those two are so cute together!!!
    Are those crossed feet a Korean trademark?? Matthew does the same thing!

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  4. I love this post! My SIL just had her baby boy an hour ago, so Elliot will have a cousin that is only 20 days younger than him. I am so freaking excited about this and hope to post similar photos in a year.

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  5. I *heart* the crossed feet! Super duper cute cousins. And, I'm so proud that as of this morning, I know this superstar IRL!

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  6. Eeek! So much cuteness! They are adorable together!

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  7. what cuties!!!
    all the fun you guys are having really shows in these pictures, grace. so great!!
    love the "real" pebbles and bam-bam...and these two dead ringers too!!
    (crossed feet, couldn't be cuter!)

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  8. Oh, my, yes. Ridiculous cuteness!

    I think all the bossiness and complete sentences comes from being a girl. Rory could tell you all about it. LOL

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  9. They are so cute, I can hardly stand it! Hope the rest of your trip is great!

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  10. hellooooo there! i'm sooo out of touch at the mo. but i love this post! super cute cousins.

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  11. such ca-ute cousins!!! my younger sister's second daughter is 5 months younger than oliver and i can not wait to see them two together!!

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  12. OMG these two are unreasonably cute!!! gah!!

    And the other post with CB's arms behind him as he runs superfast made me guffaw (at work). Awesome.

    ~elizabeth D

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  13. Well we already knew CB was super duper cute, but boy! So is his cousin - she's adorable! We have the cross-legged pose all the time too and I LOVE it :)

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  14. Oh my goodness--those two are adorable together! I love that Molly is bossing cb around. That's got to be so funny to watch!

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  15. i love that cb has a cousin his age! and they are definitely super cute together. c has a cousin just a few weeks older than him, and it makes family visits so much fun for him [and for us!].

    love the cross legged shot and that molly bosses cb around! hee hee!

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  16. Yay for cousin love!! I love the girl-boy relationship, too. Molly is just adorable and the photos of them together are just precious. You can tell they had such a blast together.

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  17. HOLY. COW. I cannot even STAND the cuteness of this post. Handsome and Adorable all rolled into one...

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  18. Crossed legs here on the West Coast too - holla! Hee, hee! Such cuteness all in one family - WOW! Very special that they are close in age. Looks like a wonderful trip.

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  19. Imagine if you two lived closer! Those kids would be trouble with a capital T - but in a good way. And love the toes shot - baby toes are the best!

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