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Date: Friday, 7 September 2007 17:34 (UTC)No; my second sister also has a son. And she just phoned us a quarter of an hour ago to tell us she'll be paying us a surprise visit, too!
So Amy will be meeting all three of her cousins, two of her three aunts, and four grandparents plus a great-grandmother. (Stella's parents and grandmother came over yesterday; my father and his wife will be coming over tomorrow with my sisters.)
...I was about to write "all grandparents", but Amy has three sets of grandparents. We had thought that Stella's father and his wife wanted to come, too, but that was a misunderstanding; he didn't get off work until yesterday evening and will be coming to Germany today. I'm not sure whether he's going to visit us while he's here.
In a way, I'm a bit jealous; I never knew any of my great-grandparents. (Partly because my parents were already fairly old when they had me, even though I was the first -- my father was 38 and my mother 29. And my paternal grandfather was 33 when he had my father and my maternal grandfather was 48 when he had my mother.)
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Date: Friday, 7 September 2007 17:35 (UTC)Oops, make that "two out of four" -- I forgot Stella's sister (I have three sisters, she has one).
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Date: Friday, 7 September 2007 23:19 (UTC)Wow. That's quite a gathering!
...I was about to write "all grandparents", but Amy has three sets of grandparents.
That child's going to be spoilt rotten. ;)
In a way, I'm a bit jealous; I never knew any of my great-grandparents.
As you point out, that tends to be a result of either birth order or of parents' age. I was lucky enough to know three of my great-grandmothers, and my great-grandmothers in the paternal line I knew for a considerable period of time; one died when I was about 12, and the other when I was about 18. (That's primarily an artefact of birth order; I was my parents' first child, and my father and my paternal grandfather are also the eldest in their families, and my paternal grandmother was an only child.)