We found out today via Facebook that the Big Eight, Little Six, and Very Little Five will soon be expanded by another little boy.  The four couples of the Big Eight have been Best Friends since the early 1970's; the Little Six are our children; and the Very Little Five are our grandchildren.  Thus far only three of the Little Six have contributed to the Very Little Five, but that will definitely change in a few months.  Lauren, the youngest of the Little Six, is with child, and the baby's going to be a boy.  Dr. Lauren is a veterinarian, and Jason, the Baby Daddy, is a lawyer, or will soon be.  So I don't really anticipate squalor and economic hardship for Very Little Sixth, just as I don't anticipate squalor and economic hardship for any of the Very Little Five.  Here are some pictures of the Very Little Five on Easter Sunday this year:

Jacob, Laura, Christopher, and Liza (trying to seduce flirting with Christopher; LOL)

Laura, Liza, Jacob, and Christopher looking at Uncle Larry's boat

Catherine Susan holding Natalie, the Fifth of the Very Little Five

Pictures by Mr. Bill

We are so excited about Lauren's and Jason's baby that we can hardly stand it.  These friendship ties go back 35 years or more, and the Big Eight, Little Six (and their spouses), and Very Little Five (soon to be the Very Little Six) are as much family as anything.  There will soon be 26 of us, and that's pretty remarkable, but there are many more besides in that constallation of family/friends: Aunt Judy and Uncle Larry; Aunt Thelma; Aunt Betty Sue; Grandma Jane; Grandpa Len and Grandma Joyce.  There are probably others I'm forgetting and leaving out.  They say it takes a village to raise a chld.  Well, our village is in place and ready.

ED