the most adorable cousins ever

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Originally uploaded by marmahan.

my grandparents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this past weekend in oklahoma. there was a ridiculous amount of family there and i got to meet one cousin for the first time. whitney is 6, but i haven't seen her family in probably 8 years. she and her sister wendy were the cutest kids i've seen in a really long time. they are absurdly articulate, so much so that talking to whitney is like visiting with a child twice her age. at the same time, they are bubbling with energy. during a concert friday night, whitney physically could not stop squirming and i found it almost impossible to tell her no when she flashed that heart-stopping smile at me. besides being cute enought to eat, they are brilliant. they're fluent in japanese and whitney wrote me a poem. she's 6 and she wrote me a poem. are you kidding me? when i was 6 i would've been happy to color inside the lines. needless to say, i'm thoroughly impressed and can't wait to go to florida to visit them.