Summary
It has been a good month. Lumi has been maturing in a lot of small ways and she is not really a baby anymore. The biggest event this month was giving up the tutti (pacifier).
Events
4.5 hike with Gemma's family : Bru Kultursti
8.5 first Roald Dahl book, "The Enormous Crocodile"
15.5 Visit to the dentist; first time in Norway. Dentist said we should be brushing twice a day and that she needs to stop using the pacifier.
16.5 First night of no-tutti.
17.5 Norwegian National Day; went to watch the parades. Also Xaden's birthday party.
20.5 crêpes with the neighbors for dinner
22.5 first Tippy Toes playgroup
26.5 Visited future barnehage, Lasse Liten. She will be in the Hvitveis class ("wood anemone")
28.5 Gausel Farm with a bunch of other parents and kids
29.5 hung tutti on the tutti tree in Mosvatnet - "I am not a baby now. I am a big girl."
1.6 barbeque at Gemma's house
Language
She is still learning little new phrases here and there.
On 11.5 she parroted the word "obviously" back to me, using it correctly.
She is on a kick now of inventing her own "language", which is mostly her saying some nonsense sound and saying "that means ___ in my language".
Learning
Currently she loves to count and will count most anything. She is doing great at recognizing the numbers in signs. We have also been practicing 2-digit numbers on pages in books. Counting to 10 in both Finnish and English is consistent, and now she is working on going to 20.
We visited her new barnehage and though I think she will be fine after a couple weeks in a Norwegian language bath, the director agreed that she would probably be more comfortable if we can spend some time learning some common words. So now we have a summer assignment!
30.5 she wrote "Lumi" on paper without help!
Toys, Games, what have you
She is still enjoying hide-and-seek. Lately she likes to play with toy cars.
On 8.5 we got some longer books from the library, like Roald Dahl's "The Enormous Crocodile". It's really nice to read something with a plot. I am trying to read these longer books and then talk about the plot after, and help her understand it.
She has informed me that she doesn't really like arts and crafts. I am delighted that she can make this kind of statement, because now that I think about it, it's probably true, and the fact that she can reflect about her own tendencies is great. I'm embarrassed that i didn't notice it (I had been assuming that all kids like art projects and now that I think about it, she hasn't ever gotten into it much). And I'm also delighted because it's something I had felt quite guilty about not doing enough of since she has been home with me and now I feel relieved that I wasn't depriving her of something she loved.
We played her first board game, "The Great Race".
She loves singing and loves to sing when we are out walking. Current favorites are "Wheels on the Bus" and "Mary had a little lamb". She is starting to experiment with her own verses of "wheels on the bus". Some make no sense but others are pretty funny (e.g. "The trees on the bus say 'I want to grow'... ")
As a reward for really giving up the pacifier, we got her the Lego Duplo ice cream set.
At the barnehage visit, she really didn't want to leave and then we had some delay on the playground. She started playing with some girls on the playground (me: so happy to see that!) and soon threw sand on them (me: so mortified to see that!). they left because of that, and we talked about it later and i pointed out that people don't want to play with people who throw sand. hopefully she learned the lesson.
Food
She enjoyed drinking the bottles of breastmilk that Otso has rejected. We had been in a good streak of experimentation but lately it seems we are back to picky eating.
And I suppose it had to happen sooner or later: on 13.5 she informed me that she doesn't like brown spots on her bananas.
On 22.5 she joined me in having rice cakes with peanut butter. I have been encouraging peanut butter for some time but she hadn't tried it yet. She seemed to like it, and has asked for it again.
Health
At the dentist, we got some good news (no cavities!) and some instructions: brush twice a day and lose the tutti. We have been wanting her to brush in the morning too but each night she protests and it is a miserable experience, so we selfishly haven't wanted to push the morning brushing. She still hates it and doesn't have any interest in using toothpaste (which we don't force either). And we have been looking for a good time to lose the tutti, so we jumped at this opportunity to blame it on a third party. We waited a day until Kimmo was home. The first night she cried for a long time and resisted going to sleep. We tried to help her relax and the only thing she really responded to was scratching and gently rubbing her head. The next couple days we skipped naps (usual weekend protocol) but the following Monday she seemed to nap as usual. These first couple of nights she has had some trouble falling asleep but seemed to sleep better for the rest of the night.
Stats
size: 98 or 3T
height: 93.5 cm
weight: 12.6 kg
Random
On 3.5 while we were playing doctor I listed "my hair hurts" as one of my symptoms. She suggested that the problem was my hair touching my ears, and fixed it with a barrette.
On 7.5 she learned that I don't like some of her books, and spent the rest of the day going to the bookshelf to ask "which ones do you like, äiti?"
She loves to sing songs, and on 11.5 discovered that she can sing certain ones with her eyes closed. She is pretty proud of that.
On 12.5:
A: It's grandpa's birthday next week. Should we make him a card?"
L: Yes. Maybe a birthday card!
On 26.5, Lumi woke me up in the middle of the night crying because she had taken her pajama pants off and couldn't get them back on.
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