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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