Two other recent bits about Colin.

[rivka]

I wrote that developmental update while I was at my faculty retreat last week. Since then, Colin has picked up two awesome new things I want to share:

• A while back he learned to sing "Goodnight Ladies." "Goodnight ladies, we're going to leave you now." Then he did a little experimentation with changing "ladies" into people's names: "Good night Mama, we're going to leave you now."
  
  This weekend he started changing the lyrics entirely. Michael left the dinner table to go to the bathroom, and Colin broke into song: "Good night, Daddy, going to pee potty." And this morning, as Alex settled in to watch her video: "Good night, Alex, going to Liberty's Kids show."



• He's started carrying news. We went in to wake Alex up this morning, and he eagerly reported to her about his exciting new pajamas: "Alex! Colin dinosaurs on there!" Michael had a massive sneezing fit, and Colin came into the next room and told me excitedly, "Mama, Daddy sneezed! Daddy sneezed!"
  
  This isn't flat-out funny like singing "Good night, Daddy, going to pee potty," but it's a big developmental leap because it shows that Colin is starting to understand that everyone doesn't know what he knows. That's the beginning of a theory of mind.

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[taeraresh.livejournal.com]

At this rate, he's going to take over the world by age eight, if Alex doesn't beat him to it.

[kiya]

... it suddenly occurs to me that 'Goodnight Ladies' may be the tune whispercricket sings KJ to sleep with. She does a lot of substitutions on it, so the result tends to go like:

Goodnight KJ
Goodnight kitties
Goodnight light bulb
It's time to go to sleep

Goodnight Daddy
Goodnight noises
Goodnight cha-irs
It's time to go to sleep ...