Lumi's 20th Month

I'm sorry about all the English, but I hope it's better than nothing! It was a good month with a lot of activities.

Events:
We started out with a visit from Grandma. On her 19th month birthday, we went to the zoo with Grandma and Lumi rode a pony! Then we took a weekend trip to Finland for the wedding of one of Kimmo's closest boyhood friends: Sami (to Ilona). This was momentous because Lumi spent the night in Nakkila with Mummu, and it was her first overnight with neither father nor mother. Then just last weekend we all went to Munich for Oktoberfest. It's not the greatest event for a toddler, but the point of going was to meet up with some old friends from the US, Mike and Matt (and Ian and Kate, both Peace Corps friends).

Potty training:
At home we try to keep Lumi pants-free so she can easily go to the potty whenever she feels the need to go. We also keep her little potty in the living room for the same reason. She gets most pee in the potty while at home, but still poop on floor most times. She knows enough to warn us with about 1 second lead time about poop by shouting 'pee!'. :) At daycare (and they have been very helpful and understand about this transition), she is often peeing in the potty, but poop in the diaper. Late in the month, she switched to yelling 'kakka!' right after she pees, and also having trouble remembering to go to the potty. This may be our fault for not asking frequently enough if she needs to go. And on 1 October she opened her own diaper -- one with snaps that is supposedly babyproof!

Food:
She loves berries, kidney beans, green peas, green beans, bananas, olives, cheese, and milk.

Language:
Lumi speaks Czech, English, and Finnish with a number of words in each. She seems to understand German (which she gets in smaller quantities at daycare) but doesn't really speak it. She is beginning to separate out the languages, although that could just be repetition and my imagination working together.

Health:
She had a cold with a high fever toward the end of the month. And her last incisor arrived during Oktoberfest.