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[quote=Anonymous]Op Here--thank you both for the replies!

The first reply ( about the cousins coming to stay with us alone) I have thought of, but we both work and DD is in Daycare--so unless they only came for a weekend ( could look into), am not sure what we would do for childcare? I am saving all my time for maternity leave --so have no vacation to stay home...however maybe down the road, that is a great idea.

As for the second , especially the part of taking the older kids to do something and leaving toddler with grandparents, that is a wonderful idea.  I didn't want to give too much background and write the worlds longest post --but when his parents come with the children my DH and I take over as parents, we do everything kid related from baths to when they were little and didn't stay in bed would sleep in our bed with us---we play, we read to them---his parents love it because they get a "break". The "difficulty" started when we had our child, we would still do these things and then expect his parents to play with our child ( who again was a lot younger) so more just holding....and instead the niece/nephew get very jealous when they spend anytime with the baby. They insist on holding her, or playing with her--I hadn't thought ( duh) about completely removing them i.e. going to a park/something older and leaving the baby hold--so thank you, will suggest that.

I think for my husband he just really wants to feel like his parents know our children, this honestly helped in perhaps its not the view we had of them knowing our children ( one on one), but just something is better than nothing![/quote]

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