Kai at Play

You always knew when Kai had been playing somewhere. He usually left the toys, often cars in neat rows or organized. When you would stop to watch him while he was in deep play, usually talking to himself and sometimes jumping doing his "Kai dance," he would look up see you and say "Doon't listen to me" embarrassed somehow. He would play uninterrupted and by himself for hours at a time. Not evening taking time to put on clothes. Mainly he would play LEGOs, coming in and asking me to separate pieces he was having trouble getting apart with his little hands, or to show me his latest creation.

Some days he would beg to watch videos showing how people build LEGO creations or asking to look up instructions for certain Star Wars vehicles. He would spend about a half hour, then look up and say, "I'm done" and rush off to recreate what he had just watched or saw.