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grandparents!

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kenny's grandparents have come up from Miyazaki for a visit. Tonight Otoo-san and I went to get Kenny from the daycare and he looked from one of us to the other and then gave us a well-pleased smile.

We got him home after running some errands (for once I bought Mari a bouquet of flowers of all one colour, which she's been telling me straight up—for a long time—is her style) and it seemed that Kenny knew that something was different. He stepped tentatively into the hallway after I took his shoes off, and after a moment shocked me by saying "Kazu?"

That's the first name of his Obaa-san (grandma), but she's trained all of the little ones to call her that because she doesn't like being called "grandma". I had no idea that Kenny knew the word, and it seemed to surprise the grandparents, too. Good lad, start the visit with a splash!