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Olivia would be... get ready for this it's pretty confusing... YOUR first cousin once removed and to your kids she's a second cousin. This was explained to me pretty young because I have so damn many of them on my father's side. It's basically a generational thing. It's really easier to just say cousin and keep it at that. Or in my case, anybody a generation older than me, be it cousin, grandparent's friend, whatever, was Aunt or Uncle.

On to the hair thing - Sarah, at present, has hair sort of the length of your younger girls'. Frankly, she's going to have to beg me to cut it. I did when she was 19 months and regretted it since... won't again. Did you get that? WON'T.. mother in law be damned - I'm apparently immune to all the Jewish guilt. Husband laughed at me for spraying leave in conditioner in her hair the other day so brushing wouldn't hurt - accused me of using "product". Says the man who has hair a half inch long.