28 November 2013
21 November 2013
Otso at peace
Otso still doesn't do too much other than eat, sleep, and cry. But here is him looking at least comfortable and happy to be sleeping.
20 November 2013
Otso's 1st Month
Today Otso is 1 month old!
20.10 birth!
22.10 started non-meconium poo
23.10 come home
24-27.10 Mummu visit
25.10 belly button stub fell off
31.10 - 3.11: Vaari visit
26.10 first bath. Not a happy experience because he was cold.
29.10 Angela ate asparagus; miserable evening due to resulting gas.
6.11 we noticed slightly more arm and hand control, a little more effective reaching.
10-13.11 äiti sick with mastitis
15.11 first social smile. Adorable and endearing!
Eating
He usually eats reasonably efficiently. He is having trouble getting a good latch consistently. Mostly eating every 3 hours. We had a little strange spit up after I had some cheese, so I am trying to avoid dairy as well as gluten and gassy vegetables.
Health
1.11 - seems to have a diaper rash, maybe yeast. we switched to disposables for a couple of days and now try to wash him in the sink (not just use the wipes).
11.11 seems to have a terrible yeast diaper rash
12.11 otso starts passively getting the antibiotics for the mastitis, starts spitting up a LOT.
13.11 use of the antifungal cream we got for a diaper rash of lumi's clears up the rash pretty quickly. Unfortunately, he seems to have a bit of his sister's cold and listening to him trying to breathe while on his back at night is awful.
He has some baby acne.
Likes/Dislikes
likes - milk, sucking on hands, being carried on the shoulder
dislikes - being cold, being hot, being hungry
Stats
Birth: 3.58 kg, 34 cm head circumference, 50 cm long
8.11: 4.2 kg, 37.5 head circumference
His feet are unusually long, so newborn socks didn't fit, and footed pants are problematic.
20.10 birth!
22.10 started non-meconium poo
23.10 come home
24-27.10 Mummu visit
25.10 belly button stub fell off
31.10 - 3.11: Vaari visit
26.10 first bath. Not a happy experience because he was cold.
29.10 Angela ate asparagus; miserable evening due to resulting gas.
6.11 we noticed slightly more arm and hand control, a little more effective reaching.
10-13.11 äiti sick with mastitis
15.11 first social smile. Adorable and endearing!
Eating
He usually eats reasonably efficiently. He is having trouble getting a good latch consistently. Mostly eating every 3 hours. We had a little strange spit up after I had some cheese, so I am trying to avoid dairy as well as gluten and gassy vegetables.
Health
1.11 - seems to have a diaper rash, maybe yeast. we switched to disposables for a couple of days and now try to wash him in the sink (not just use the wipes).
11.11 seems to have a terrible yeast diaper rash
12.11 otso starts passively getting the antibiotics for the mastitis, starts spitting up a LOT.
13.11 use of the antifungal cream we got for a diaper rash of lumi's clears up the rash pretty quickly. Unfortunately, he seems to have a bit of his sister's cold and listening to him trying to breathe while on his back at night is awful.
He has some baby acne.
Likes/Dislikes
likes - milk, sucking on hands, being carried on the shoulder
dislikes - being cold, being hot, being hungry
Stats
Birth: 3.58 kg, 34 cm head circumference, 50 cm long
8.11: 4.2 kg, 37.5 head circumference
His feet are unusually long, so newborn socks didn't fit, and footed pants are problematic.
15 November 2013
09 November 2013
06 November 2013
Registration problems
When we tried to register the name "Otso John Vuori" with the Norwegian official system, this is the error message we got:
Mellomnavn: Følgende navn er beskyttet og kan ikke tas med mindre man har knytninger til dem: JOHN. Advarslene er til informasjon og skjemaet kan sendes inn når det er ferdig utfylt. Vennligst kontroller om navnet er skrevet riktig, og skriv i så fall en begrunnelse.
Fornavn: Følgende navn er ukjent eller sjelden benyttet som mannlig fornavn: OTSO. Vennligst kontroller om navnet er skrevet riktig.
Begrunnelse: Navnet kan være gyldig til tross for advarsler, men du må da legge inn en begrunnelse.
Google translates this as:
Middle: The following names are protected and can not be taken unless you have ties to them, JOHN. The warnings are for information and form can be submitted when it is completed. Please check if your name is spelled correctly, and write in this case a justification.
First: The following names are unknown or rarely used as a male first name: OTSO. Please check if your name is spelled correctly.
Explanation: The name may be valid despite the warnings, but you must enter a reason.
Mellomnavn: Følgende navn er beskyttet og kan ikke tas med mindre man har knytninger til dem: JOHN. Advarslene er til informasjon og skjemaet kan sendes inn når det er ferdig utfylt. Vennligst kontroller om navnet er skrevet riktig, og skriv i så fall en begrunnelse.
Fornavn: Følgende navn er ukjent eller sjelden benyttet som mannlig fornavn: OTSO. Vennligst kontroller om navnet er skrevet riktig.
Begrunnelse: Navnet kan være gyldig til tross for advarsler, men du må da legge inn en begrunnelse.
Google translates this as:
Middle: The following names are protected and can not be taken unless you have ties to them, JOHN. The warnings are for information and form can be submitted when it is completed. Please check if your name is spelled correctly, and write in this case a justification.
First: The following names are unknown or rarely used as a male first name: OTSO. Please check if your name is spelled correctly.
Explanation: The name may be valid despite the warnings, but you must enter a reason.
03 November 2013
Lumi's 33rd Month
Events
19.10: lumi learns to vacuum, decides she likes it. parents cheer!
20.10: brother born, spent day with joelle and christophe from upstairs
21.10: meeting otso
24-27.10: Mummu visit
31.10 - 3.11: Vaari visit
Food
She eats cheerios with milk in the morning, a drink of juice, and then a snack at about 10:30. Lunch is at 12:00, then a snack after nap, then dinner around 18:00. Some days she will hardly eat anything and other days she wolfs down huge amounts.
The color she prefers now is the green plate (and bowl, fork, spoon, etc).
Food she loves: sausage (and will even eat it uncooked), mashed potatoes, most types of beans, plain pasta, ice cream, chocolate.
31.10 - we roasted marshmallows in the fireplace!
Language
She is seemingly picking up new words and phrases daily.
22.10: she is emphatically saying something that sounds like "nazi". We are pretty sure she means something else, but neither of us can guess what. But we are in the hospital now and it is pretty embarrassing when you are asking your toddler not to do something and she calls you a Nazi.
Learning
Her counting is improving, and she is getting more adept in small ways with following plots and building things with her toys.
Behavior
Recent problem behavior includes yelling indoors, and also putting up a huge fight when we put clothes on in the morning. She also hates taking baths these days.
She is generally kind and lots of fun when she is well-rested and getting plenty of attention.
She seems to enjoy holding and petting the baby, but of course it is hard for her to process that someone else needs attention. She has had a few tantrums since he arrived. Both grandparent visits helped in that they were able to spend most of the day attending to her various whims.
Toys/Books/Games
She is really starting to appreciate a narrative in her play (it's raining and we must go inside, or the sandbox is out of sand and needs to be refilled, etc).
She loves her dolls, and likes to put them in high chairs, or on the potty, or wherever real babies go. One of her constant complaints when we visit the upstairs neighbor is that she can't put her doll into the high chair because their [real] baby is using it.
She still loves books, and now will insist on "reading" alone in bed after we tuck her in and read her a story. Even if we turn the light off, it gets turned back on so she can look at her books. We have decided it is an argument we don't want to have, so we just come along later and turn the light off after she falls asleep. Current favorite books are the Muumi series ("Pikku Myy ja Leija" is requested every day).
Both parents have installed toddler apps on their phones, and lumi loves them. Favorites include a memory game and anything from Lego.
Mummu brought her an activity book with stickers and she loves it.
Health
There is a little facial tic when she is tired, a kind of half smile on the right side.
Update: It turns out she is mimicking an expression of äiti's.
Stats
clothes: 2T in US, 98 in European
height - 89cm
weight - ?
naps - usually one per day, starting after lunch. she is starting to skip them, even if she goes to her room sometimes she can't fall asleep. we think this means she might be heading toward a no-nap lifestyle, which is not great for us. :)
Random Funny Stuff
When lumi was with the neighbors during otso's birth, she insisted that christophe (ä Belgian) read a Finnish book to her. And he gamely tried, and she informed him that he didn't read it very well.
19.10: lumi learns to vacuum, decides she likes it. parents cheer!
20.10: brother born, spent day with joelle and christophe from upstairs
21.10: meeting otso
24-27.10: Mummu visit
31.10 - 3.11: Vaari visit
She eats cheerios with milk in the morning, a drink of juice, and then a snack at about 10:30. Lunch is at 12:00, then a snack after nap, then dinner around 18:00. Some days she will hardly eat anything and other days she wolfs down huge amounts.
The color she prefers now is the green plate (and bowl, fork, spoon, etc).
Food she loves: sausage (and will even eat it uncooked), mashed potatoes, most types of beans, plain pasta, ice cream, chocolate.
31.10 - we roasted marshmallows in the fireplace!
She is seemingly picking up new words and phrases daily.
22.10: she is emphatically saying something that sounds like "nazi". We are pretty sure she means something else, but neither of us can guess what. But we are in the hospital now and it is pretty embarrassing when you are asking your toddler not to do something and she calls you a Nazi.
Her counting is improving, and she is getting more adept in small ways with following plots and building things with her toys.
Recent problem behavior includes yelling indoors, and also putting up a huge fight when we put clothes on in the morning. She also hates taking baths these days.
She is generally kind and lots of fun when she is well-rested and getting plenty of attention.
She seems to enjoy holding and petting the baby, but of course it is hard for her to process that someone else needs attention. She has had a few tantrums since he arrived. Both grandparent visits helped in that they were able to spend most of the day attending to her various whims.
She is really starting to appreciate a narrative in her play (it's raining and we must go inside, or the sandbox is out of sand and needs to be refilled, etc).
She loves her dolls, and likes to put them in high chairs, or on the potty, or wherever real babies go. One of her constant complaints when we visit the upstairs neighbor is that she can't put her doll into the high chair because their [real] baby is using it.
She still loves books, and now will insist on "reading" alone in bed after we tuck her in and read her a story. Even if we turn the light off, it gets turned back on so she can look at her books. We have decided it is an argument we don't want to have, so we just come along later and turn the light off after she falls asleep. Current favorite books are the Muumi series ("Pikku Myy ja Leija" is requested every day).
Both parents have installed toddler apps on their phones, and lumi loves them. Favorites include a memory game and anything from Lego.
Mummu brought her an activity book with stickers and she loves it.
There is a little facial tic when she is tired, a kind of half smile on the right side.
Update: It turns out she is mimicking an expression of äiti's.
clothes: 2T in US, 98 in European
height - 89cm
weight - ?
naps - usually one per day, starting after lunch. she is starting to skip them, even if she goes to her room sometimes she can't fall asleep. we think this means she might be heading toward a no-nap lifestyle, which is not great for us. :)
When lumi was with the neighbors during otso's birth, she insisted that christophe (ä Belgian) read a Finnish book to her. And he gamely tried, and she informed him that he didn't read it very well.
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