My ex and I are talking again

We broke up about 4 years ago. I have a son now and he has a daughter now. We added each other on social media again and I decided to message him, see how he was doing and what not. So now we talk about once a week. We are both single before anyone jumps down my throat. Anyways, my question is why does he randomly send me pictures of his nephews or his kid? Like we'll be talking and he'll just send me a picture and I don't really know why. We wouldn't have even been talking about kids. Like cool I love the pictures, his daughter and nephews are adorable I'm just confused.