A Little Family

First of all I'm sorry, I've been getting a little sloppy and not editing posts before I post them and the last one had a boo boo in the title. I can't figure out how to edit them once they are posted!
One of things we really like to do when traveling is to stay place long enough to start relating to some locals and we also like eating on the street at little restaurants that are set up at night on the sidewalks and disappear the next day till evening when they set up again. These pictures were taken in Siem Reip at one of these restaurants.
Folks who have these restaurants kind of call you in, trying to get you before their neighbour does. We couldn't resist eating at this one because the little girl was the one trying to get people in and she was too adorable to ignore! The food was good and cheap, a meal was about $1.50, so we went there each night. We quickly realized that it was a family running it, mom, dad, the two little girls and a brand new baby. The restaurant was set up on the sidewalk that had about a five foot fence along it. It turns out the cooking area was on the other side of the fence and there was a wooden ladder on each side to get up and down. They spoke a few words of English and we spoke no Cambodian but each night we communicated. The ice breaker was talking about, or gesturing about kids. When they find out we have one it gives us something in common. People here are always puzzled about why we only have one and always politely ask about it if they can speak enough english. The last night we ate at this family restaurant the father asked me to take a picture he and Philip and then invited me to go up the ladder to the other side to see the new baby. What a treat! He was sleeping in a hammock while the rest of the family worked. The little girls got sleepier as the evening went on and then they went in the back to go to sleep too.
I have a slightly different perspective on child labour than I did before. In poorer countries like this families often work together or parents have their kids with them while they work and it seems like a good thing when people are together as a unit. I guess this isn't the kind of child labour we talk about so distastefully at home is it?