Baby Book - Sa'mekh'al

Mama and baba were excited about something. Mama was smiling and laughing. Baba kept touching her and the corners of his mouth were curled up - that meant he was happy, too. Grayson knew. But he didn't know what they were happy about.

Mama gave him another bath. He had already had one today! Then she dressed him all up in new clothes. And she made him wear shoes, too. Baba said he looked 'nice'. That made mama laugh again. Grayson wished he knew what was going on.

Now baba picked him up and sat him on his hip. Grayson liked this. He grabbed a handful of baba's shirt in the back and patted baba's face with his hand. Baba had his warm arm around him, holding him in place and now they were going somewhere - down the corridor in the ship. Grayson laughed and waved to people as they passed.

Then they came to a place where Grayson hadn't been before, but there was Scoddy. Grayson laughed again - he like Scoddy. There was a loud humming sound that he had not heard before - he looked around, trying to figure out where it was coming from. Something very strange was happening over there, all sparkly shimmery stuff in the air. And WHOA! There were people there where none had been just a minute ago.

Grayson patted baba's chest, trying to get his attention. Had baba seen that? But baba wasn't paying him any attention, instead he was looking at those new people. Grayson turned his head back to look at them, too. These new people had ears like baba's and his, not like everyone else's. Interesting.

The new people stepped down off the platform they were on and came closer. Grayson looked at them. One of those people looked like someone he had seen before. He cocked his head sideways like baba did when he was thinking. Where had he seen that man? He hadn't seen him in the mess hall. He knew he hadn't been in the day care center where he played with his friends. He had never been in the rooms he shared with mama and baba. Where had he seen him?

The new man came over and stood in front of baba. He raised one hand and made a strange gesture and said something in baba's language. Baba made the same gesture and replied to him. Then the new man bent his head closer to Grayson and said something else.

"nash-veh t'sa-fu, Spock?"

"nash-veh S'chn T'gai Grayson, sa'mekh."

Grayson swiveled his head to look first at his father and then at the other man. He held out his fingers toward that other face, remembering now where he had seen it before. "sa'mekh'al"

And there was mama, smiling at him. "Yes, Grayson, this is your grandfather."

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Sa'mekh'al = grandfather

Nash-veh t'sa-fu = this is your son

Sa'mekh = father