Summary
He is a sweet kid but very opinionated. When he is happy he smiles and is quite charming.
He frustrates easily and then will get so mad that he won't do/eat/play whatever it was he originally wanted (and since he can't say much of anything yet, this makes it difficult to figure out what he actually wants).
He is a sweet kid but very opinionated. When he is happy he smiles and is quite charming.
He frustrates easily and then will get so mad that he won't do/eat/play whatever it was he originally wanted (and since he can't say much of anything yet, this makes it difficult to figure out what he actually wants).
20.12 downtown day with Vaari
21.12 Lankinen family arrives; Christmas dinner with Vaari and Leena; drive to Nakkila
23.12 Lankinen family arrives in Nakkila
24.12 Finnish Christmas
25.12 Lankinen family leaves Nakkila
26.12 visit to Kari family and drive to Helsinki
27.12 fever at night
28.12 flight home to Stavanger
2.1 eating again!
11.1 Diego's birthday party
17.1 Stavanger Oilers hockey game
18.1-22.1 Kimmo gone on a work trip
18.1 playground and lunch with gemma and family, dinner upstairs
19.1 nurse appointment, MMR shot
He is getting more confident with walking and simply standing. He has been practicing standing all by himself. When he does this he points his arms down and back like a ski jumper.
With the sickness over the New Year holiday, this was reduced again. He stopped standing by himself and stopped wanting to walk much.
This first week of January he is standing again and walking a few steps. But we haven't seen the ski jumper again!
Toward the end of the month he has been trying to use a spoon to feed himself. It worked reasonably well for rice pudding.
He clearly understands a lot now. We can ask him things, yes/no questions, and he will nod his head or shake his head accordingly.
Example: Do you want a balloon? Head nods vigorously.
He says something like "more" when he wants more food.
He is really enjoying his cousins.
In Nakkila he seems drawn to the Legos and toy cars. He also liked sauna when we tossed water on him.
At home he loves cars and stuff he can build with or throw with.
At Christmas he ate a lot. Not much meat but he loves the berries and all the carbs: pancakes, potatoes, Cheerios, various pastries. He is addicted to Marie cookies.
We are having a hard time with his eating at barnehage. He doesn't eat much there. He doesn't like what they serve and he isn't offered much else. We are going back and forth with them about this and they started offering him stuff like pasta.
9.1 he was really hungry and grumpy again after barnehage so we opened a can of corn and dumped it into a bowl. he sat on the kitchen floor and ate about half of it, then ate dinner with us. he was much happier after that.
14.1 We are delighted to see that he is back to eating cooked broccoli and cauliflower
17.1 still consuming incredible amounts of carbs. He isn't much for fruit but he is happily eating fruit purée via pouch again, which is a nice food to put his vitamin d drops in.
21.12 last night started night weaning again.
22.12 night was great. He slept in the crib all night until 5:30.
He has switched back to 2 naps per day (maybe the 15 month sleep regression?).
11.1 last night he slept in his crib from bedtime until 5:30!
12.1 last night we tried to keep him in his crib instead of bringing him into the guest bed with äiti. so he cried from 3:20 until 6:15.
13.1 last night slept from bedtime until almost 6!
14.1 last night he cried a lot around 3 something. But overall it seems better since we decided to keep him in the crib.
27.12 developed a fever after going to bed.
28.12 still feverish, vomited each time we gave him medicine. Not eating.
29.12 still not feeling better and not eating. We took him to the doctor. His blood count was high but not astronomical. He has a bit of fluid in the ears and redness of the throat. Vomited in afternoon.
30.12 seems a bit more cheerful but still vomited in the afternoon
31.12 still miserable but we got a little reprieve with a paracetamol suppository. He vomited immediately afterwards, which was strange. But then he ate 2 pieces of macaroni.
1.1 more paracetamol suppositories.
2.1 after lumi offered him a bit of pancake at lunch, he started eating again! for the first time since last saturday! (he has been only breastfeeding only with a rare exception of some crumbs here or there) then he ate chicken and rice at dinner, and then started standing again on his own. and he ate his usual yogurt before bed.
19.1 MMR vaccine (Priorix) and health station appointment. They generally said everything seems to be fine, but we were instructed to start using a little bit of flouride toothpaste. She also asked how much we are nursing and I told her 3 times a day and she said that was fine but it shouldn't be more than that.
Clothes: size 86 (18 months) and 92
Weight: 10.96 kg on 19.1
Length: 80 cm on 19.1
19.1 at barnehage he played outside and since he doesn't walk around when he's all bundled up he just sits in the sandbox. but it's below freezing and the sand is frozen so the teachers said he didn't have much fun.
Thank you for your detailed and delightful summaries of my precious grandchildren!!! The video of Otso feeding himself was great, as was the comment by his big sister!!!! Love to all, Grandma
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