"Home"
Friday, June 09 2006 Filed in: HuiHui
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Tina writes...
"Home"
This has become Kai's favorite word. He says it often, and gets very excited when we are out and hit the familiar main road that leads to our street. He says it gleefully after getting into the car when we have been somewhere. He says it first thing in the morning when inventorying our family, "Cam?" "He's at school." He says, "Ben?" "He's at school too." He says, "Baba?" (if Scott has left) "Baba's at work," I say. Then he will say very happily, "Kai HOME!"
It has been incredible to watch him make sense of this new world we have put him in. To become familiar with the people, places and routines of his new life. And this recent constant declaration of "home" seemed to be much more than just a comment about his
physical location. He seemed to be feeling something very deep and something most of us experience as infants, too young to verbalize or even think about consciously. So I decided
to look up the word "home" and see what Webster thought about all the meanings of this word, and I think I found the one Kai is describing;
"-adv. 3. to the center or heart of a matter; closely; directly; deeply."
Ah. There's no place like home!
"Home"
This has become Kai's favorite word. He says it often, and gets very excited when we are out and hit the familiar main road that leads to our street. He says it gleefully after getting into the car when we have been somewhere. He says it first thing in the morning when inventorying our family, "Cam?" "He's at school." He says, "Ben?" "He's at school too." He says, "Baba?" (if Scott has left) "Baba's at work," I say. Then he will say very happily, "Kai HOME!"
It has been incredible to watch him make sense of this new world we have put him in. To become familiar with the people, places and routines of his new life. And this recent constant declaration of "home" seemed to be much more than just a comment about his
physical location. He seemed to be feeling something very deep and something most of us experience as infants, too young to verbalize or even think about consciously. So I decided
to look up the word "home" and see what Webster thought about all the meanings of this word, and I think I found the one Kai is describing;
"-adv. 3. to the center or heart of a matter; closely; directly; deeply."
Ah. There's no place like home!
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