Colin has quite the imagination. For a long time, he was far ahead of Veronica in imaginative play. She has since caught up, but Colin is still the master.
Coin is the only one of the kids who has an imaginary friend, Eddie. Unfortunately, Eddie causes a lot of fights because Veronica refuses to recognize Eddie’s ownership rights to any of her toys:
“No Roni, that’s Eddie’s. That’s Eddie’s!”
“No it’s not. It’s MINE!”
“No! It’s Eddie’s!”
And suddenly everyone is crying (including Eddie, I’m assuming).
Right now, one of their favorite things to do is to pretend to be someone or something besides themselves. Veronica typically is Queen June or Queen June ballerina (although on Wednesday she suddenly told us she was Mary — not sure where that one came from). Colin is Kitty. The funny thing is, when Veronica tells us she’s Queen June, she clearly realizes that she actually is Veronica calling herself Queen June; Colin seems to think that he actually is Kitty.
If Colin is being Kitty, he will refuse to answer us when we address Colin, other than to insist that he is Kitty. He gets quite angry when we make him turn back into Colin, especially if we are trying to get him to do something he isn’t interested in doing — like brushing his teeth. In fact, he seems to forget he’s Colin most often when he doesn’t want to do something … hmmm.
He also purrs.
The other morning, I was in the bedroom with Colin and Veronica, and Colin climbed up on the big bed with me for a morning snuggle. Veronica was still asleep, so we were trying to be quiet. He snuggled in, and told me he was Kitty. I was stroking his hair, and he snuggled in closer and started to purr. “Kitty’s happy.”
He also purrs sometimes when he’s playing and having fun. It’s very cute. (And makes me grateful that he’s not a tiger or something equally destructive.)
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