Justin Might Be My Favorite Young Human, Even When He's Falling Down

My cousin is the best. Even when he makes me want to punch myself in the face, ten minutes later he'll say something about how much he loves something nerdy and I want to hug him again.

Sometimes I'll tell him about something--a new meme or a post on tumblr or a funny picture--and he'll walk up to me two weeks later, laughing about whatever I told him. It's pretty much the greatest thing ever.

The latest thing I've informed him of is doge. Doge is a new meme featuring a dog and the things he's thinking. Because dogs think about dog things, the meme uses a lot of "Wow" and "Very _____" and "Much ______" and "So _____". Kind of like this, or even this.

So yesterday, Justin and I were sent around to deliver the neighbor's Christmas gifts. In-between picking up the next round of gifts, a couple of people, one a twenty-something girl and the other an eleven-ish boy, were throwing snowballs at my house. I don't know who it was, but I do know that the girl had impeccable aim and was very pretty. Justin was giggling, almost like we were the ones throwing the snowballs, but that would be ridiculous and uncalled for. In fact, he laughed so hard at the landing of a rather supremely executed throw that he slipped on the snow in the driveway and almost fell backwards with so much force he would've bounced off his butt and cracked his head open on the concrete.

Bent over and trying to regain his balance as well as his breath, I shouted out a sympathetic "Dude, you okay?"

And he looks up at me, wide-eyed and winded, and says:

"Much surprise.

So slip.

Wow."




I'm telling you, this kid's going places.


~Kylie