changes

Simon will be four next month and the changes have been hot and heavy.  I'd say that he's had huge changes in the last two months.  Last time he had a fever, he woke up the next morning with what seemed like 20 new IQ points (but was just a big jump in verbal skills.)  That can be odd.  I don't know anybody else's child who does this, but we have always seen a correleation between fevers in our child and a hop to the next developmental level.  This last time, though, he developed the fever around 2 AM, and had the jump around 8 hours later.  Wierd!   It's very funny though, that all of the stuff that I've tried to do with him is really showing up right now. This must be the time for atavism.   When Simon was a very small child - a baby - I used to take him outside every morning and sing a good morning song to the world.  "good morning, good morning, good morning everything, good morning, good morning to you.  Good morning to the trees and flowers, how are you today?  Lots of beautiful things to see, what a great big wonderful world we're in.    Good morning to the bushes and plants    Well, I have got to be the world's most undisciplined person, because I haven't sung that song for ... oh, eight months?  Except that last week we walked outside and Simon started singing it! Neato!  So ... we're back.   Tonight I read him a book and then told him that, instead of making up a story as we do every night , I was going to read to him.  He said "will you read poetry to me?"  And I, surprised, said yes.  I read all sorts of things to him.  "The boy stood on the burning deck."  "Oh I was a child and she was a child in the kingdom by the sea.  And we loved with a love that was more than a love, I and my Annabelle Lee."  "Under the spreading chestnut tree, the village smithy stands..."   VERY CLASSIC poetry.  Awesome.  Puts him to sleep every time.   At any rate, it's pretty cool what they remember from their upbringing.