Writing Kai

Bill was downstairs in a meeting. I was cleaning in the kitchen. Kai went to my desk, climbed up on my chair, got a pen from the pen holder and brought it to my mom the living room. He told her he wanted to color and found the nearest paper he could find -- the new Chinese book my mom brought him from Taiwan.

He turned to the first page and started moving the pen on the page while saying, "This says Kai..." When he realized he'd "drawn" the vertical line in the letter K on the page, he stopped and looked at my mom for approval. My mom asked in Chinese, "Are you trying to write Kai? Go ahead! Show wai puo (maternal grandmother in Chinese)." This time with greater confidence, Kai put another vertical line down and proceeded finishing the remaining two strokes. Then he passed the pen to my mom and said, "Wai puo do it," he instructed her. "This one says (he said his name slowly) Ka...i..." My mom then wrote the a and the i to help him complete his name.

Afterwards, he put the pen back in the pen holder on my desk and the book on my chair. Before we went to bed, I asked, "Kai, what's that on mommy's chair?" He answered, "That's Kai's new book." Did he write his name in the book to claim it?!?!

Our 29-month-old WROTE a K!! I'll put the picture up later. Gotta go back to sleep first. After all, it's 4:10 in the morning!!

Here it is! Kai's first K: