Our Little Niece

Here is little Ellie:All right, she's technically not our niece--she's Sam's cousin's daughter, making her our first cousin once removed? is that how that works?--but we hang out with Matt and Tyrelle enough that she might as well be our niece. Isn't she so cute? She's a preemie, so when we first met her she was tiny. Sam always refused to hold her because she was so small and he was worried he'd break her or something. This picture shows Sam finally brave enough to hold her, and not even looking too worried about it.