Lumi: 4 Years and 3 Months

Summary

Lumi is fun and seems to enjoy herself. We still don't quite understand what is going on socially at barnehage, but with us and our friends she is mostly happy.

Events
4.4 drive from st. George to the villages
6.4 haircut
8.4 shopping with mama Dollie, evening dinner party
11-12.4 flights home to Stavanger
17.4-21.4 Tantie Nikki, Uncle Dave, and Nova visit (19.4 trip to Lindoy, 20.4 kept her home from barnehage for a "girls day")
27.4 Gemma's birthday party

28.4 barnehage dugnad (spring cleaning)
1-3.5 holiday weekend near Haugasund with neighbors

Language
She did really great in the US with her English, and having Isä there the whole time meant that her Finnish didn't suffer.
23.4 "no I amn't!"

Learning
24.4 she all of a sudden "got" addition. it was so cool to see. we were counting things in a picture, and i pointed out that there were 5 on one side and 5 on the other and 5 plus 5 makes 10, and then how 5 fingers on one hand and 5 fingers on the other makes for 10. and then you could almost see the lightbulb turn on. she counted out 4 and 4 and then informed me that 4 plus 4 is 8. i grabbed a piece of paper and wrote those down for her:
5 + 5 = 10
4 + 4 = 8
and then i went to the other room to get something for otso (we were getting dressed for the day) and she shouted at me "äiti, 3 plus 3 is 6!"
so then i dropped everything and we wrote that down, and also 2+2 and 1+1. we practiced the rest of the morning.

Social
One of her close friends from barnehage moved away this month.
Her first day back at barnehage after a 2 week break was great and she was all smiles at the end of the day.
She had a great time with Nova. 

Some days (especially Monday mornings), the dropoff at barnehage is miserable. 

Leisure
favorite toys: Spot It game (a gift from grandma)
She likes to pretend to be a baby squirrel or a baby fox or a baby dog.
She loves Dino Juna (Dinosaur Train in English) and now the roles of the various characters are assigned to us. She likes to be Tiinu ("Tiny" in English).

Food
She still doesn't eat a lot. Often it seems like laziness, as she will double her intake if äiti/isä is helping to feed her.

Health
12.4 we moved Otso's crib into Lumi's room for them to share a sleeping space.
13.4 we moved the crib to isä and äiti's room because the crying was too much (they are both still jet lagged). we plan to move it back after our friends visit.
23.4 poop in pants during the day at barnehage

1.5 she came down with a fever in the afternoon and was shaking and very hot by evening. we were at a rental cottage and didn't have children's pain reliever and she didn't want to try half an adult pill or a baby suppository, so she just slept for the afternoon and evening. and then in the morning she woke up like nothing had happened.

Stats
size: 104 (4T) in most clothes (though some 4T shorts slide off her hips and some 110 stuff fits her great), 27 shoe
height: 103 cm on 20.4
weight: 15.1 kg on 23.3

Random
Lumi did great on the 3 flights it took to get back to Stavanger, but had a meltdown when we strapped her into the car seat.

16.4 good gymnastics class! she voluntarily went on the thing that rolls you to do a back flip and asked nicely for my help. she also went on the balance beam not holding onto my hand.

28.4 at the barnehage spring cleaning, she had a sweet bun that she had placed on a picnic table while she was playing. then a seagull came and snatched it. she burst into tears and sobbed for a while, while the grownups all tried not to laugh.