Lumi: 3 Years and 9 Months

Summary
Lumi is doing well. She has bad days but overall she seems braver and happier.

Events
4.10 learning to use the balance bike, riding around the house
13.10 orthopedic doctor appointment
19.10 Otso's birthday party
23.10 action day at barnehage
24.10 Mummu arrives
1.11 Selma Kristine's birthday party

Language
She is getting stronger every day in Norwegian. It's almost frightening to see how much she uses it when she is playing at home, because we fear that it will replace English and Finnish.

12.10 Lumi can count to 12 in Norwegian

One "floater" teacher at the barnehage is helping her with some vocabulary drilling. Also her teacher Hege made us a little book with pictures of common things in the classroom and their Norwegian names. We go over it with Lumi and that seems to be helping everyone learn.

Learning
Lumi's barnehage is run by a church mission, and she learns a lot of God- and Jesus-oriented songs. Occasionally they teach them in English, and that is even more discomfiting.
14.10 she came home singing
"I have decided to follow Jesus!
I have decided to follow Jesus!
I have decided to follow Jesus!
No turning back, no turning back." 
The "no turning back" line is especially creepy.

On 19.10 during Otso's party she had a pee accident. Kimmo took her to the bathroom to clean up and change clothes, and while they were cleaning Kimmo taught her how to wash herself (armpits, etc). She used a lot of soap and seemed to have a great time.

On 2.11 we were out for a walk and started chatting with a couple with a dog. When they asked Lumi what her name was, she answered "Lumi." When they seemed puzzled, she spelled "L-u-m-i." I was impressed!

Social
She has friends at barnehage and the language acquisition is helping that. 
She had a great time at Otso's party. There were a bunch of little girls and they had a blast running around the house. She also surprised us by sharing her talking My Little Pony with her little friend Irene. Irene was very taken with the pony and Lumi let her take it home to borrow it for awhile.

Toys, Games, what have you
She seems drawn to whatever anyone else is playing with. 
11.10 we rented The Little Mermaid from the library. She loved it. After 2 times through she said to me "I don't like Ursula", so she seems to be figuring out bad guys vs. good guys.

We were delighted to see that Lumi has started playing air guitar. Her favorite teacher at school plays guitar and she seems really interested.

Food
She has discovered lemon pepper and will happily eat lots of meat if she can dip it in a pile of lemon pepper.
Frozen peas are making a comeback as a favorite food.

Health
We went to the orthopedic doctor on 13.10. The arm is not perfect but it is straighter now than it was 6 months ago. He said that unless her motion starts to look limited, we don't need to come in again.
Then he called the next day and said that he reviewed her xray with another doctor and he wants to see her in 1 year.
She has "healed" some bumps by holding 1 frozen pea on the fresh wound.

Stats
size: wears a 98 or 104 or 3T, only buying 4T or 104
height: 96.5 cm
weight: 13.5 kg

Random
9.10 version of Magic Penny "love is something if you give it away, you won't have any more!"

When she goes kakka on the potty, she can easily take up to 10 minutes, so we tell her to call us when she is ready for help wiping. With Kimmo she often makes a code sound for this, shouting from the bathroom: "I am doing kakka! Isä, when I make this sound (click or raspberry or something) then you come help!"

23.10 Lumi introduced Kimmo to another parent with "this is my daddy and he likes coffee and wine!"