Summary
Otso had a couple of colds this month, but has overall been in good spirits. He has started to be the aggressor sometimes in interactions (e.g. we have seen him proactively push Lumi when she is somewhere he doesn't want her to be). He is talking a lot more and we can understand a lot of what he says. Also, he can understand a lot of what we say.
Events
21.4 Nikki, Dave, Nova leave
27-28.4 sick
28.4 barnehage dugnad (spring cleaning)
1-3.5 holiday weekend near Haugasund with neighbors
6.5 sick, apparently hand foot and mouth
7.5 stayed home sick again
Otso had a couple of colds this month, but has overall been in good spirits. He has started to be the aggressor sometimes in interactions (e.g. we have seen him proactively push Lumi when she is somewhere he doesn't want her to be). He is talking a lot more and we can understand a lot of what he says. Also, he can understand a lot of what we say.
21.4 Nikki, Dave, Nova leave
27-28.4 sick
28.4 barnehage dugnad (spring cleaning)
1-3.5 holiday weekend near Haugasund with neighbors
6.5 sick, apparently hand foot and mouth
7.5 stayed home sick again
8-15.5 - scotland (shared a room with mama dollie!)
8.5 fly to aberdeen and pick up grandpa and mama Dollie and drive to nethy bridge
9.5 funicular up mountain
10.5 Balmoral castle
11.5 loch ness tour
12.5 stayed with grandpa and mama Dollie while the parents went for a tour
8.5 fly to aberdeen and pick up grandpa and mama Dollie and drive to nethy bridge
9.5 funicular up mountain
10.5 Balmoral castle
11.5 loch ness tour
12.5 stayed with grandpa and mama Dollie while the parents went for a tour
13.5 steam train ride
14.5 more little towns
15.5 Deans of Huntly cookie factory, flight home to Stavanger
16.5 Xaden's birthday party
17.5 17 May parade, bbq at Gemma's house
27.4 learned to blow his nose! he still doesn't get much volume, but he knows to try when we hold a cloth or kleenex up to his nose.
He can say a lot of words now. He speaks mostly in English and Norwegian so far, but understands Finnish when Kimmo speaks to him. He says "mamma" instead of "äiti".
21.4 lumi enticed Otso to the sofa by getting in his face and saying "nursing!"
19.5 otso said "äini" or something, so he definitely knows "äiti" even if he says "mamma" more frequently.
Lately he seems quite happy at barnehage. The teachers say he is more comfortable and assertive. His group recently divided themselves most days into the "green" group and the "yellow" group. The yellow group has the younger kids, ranging from 1.5 years to 2.5 years. Otso is the youngest, but it doesn't seem quite so severe now. The other kids in his group are all very sweet kids and he is excited to see them in the morning.
When he was sick and in Scotland he got very attached to äiti.
He likes: jumping from the ottoman to the sofa with his sister
He doesn't like: diaper changes
23.4 played with toy stroller for the first time
favorite foods: he seems to like most foods. we had great success with indian butter chicken.
22.4 had a small cup of milk with dinner. using a regular open cup is new, and so is milk consumption (although i think maybe he has been drinking milk sometimes at barnehage)
27.4 skipped evening nursing
28.4 skipped morning nursing and afternoon nursing, so we only did evening
30.4 first time getting to lick the whisk after we made rahka.
4.5 skipped morning nursing
when he was sick he nursed often and requested it even more than that.
bedtime is 7:00, wake up at 6:30.
He is in the parents' bed sleeping with äiti more than is ideal, but usually I am too lazy to stand at his crib and soothe him multiple times during the night, so I just bring him in bed with me. We have switched to the summer weight sleep sack. He was complaining a lot when we put the sleep sack on, so we tried a few nights to wear a wool overall/suit. Then he complained about that too so we figured he's just complaining about having to go to bed so now we just deal with the complaints.
a tiny bit of progress on the potty front: while lumi was peeing on the toilet for her before-bed pee, otso sat (fully clothed) on the little potty.
26.4 listless and snotty and coughing. and in the evening we found a sore in his mouth. Diego has Hand Foot and Mouth disease so it looks like Otso has it too.
27.4 much more chipper this morning, but he stayed home from barnehage nonetheless.
His poo is very soft and messy every day, which is annoying. I had hoped that by now he would have more solid poop that would be easier to clean up.
6.5 he had a fever at mid-morning so we fetched him from barnehage. then he developed a rash on his chin and buttocks. all signs point to Hand Foot and Mouth disease.
9.5 still sick though now it seems to have morphed into a cold with a bad cough. The rashes are drying up except for a sore on the lip inside his mouth but he is sniffing and unhappy and coughing.
10.5 better but still whiny
15.5 can identify pee and when someone is peeing
Clothes: size 92 (2T) in most things.
Weight: 12.1 kg on 8.5
Length: 80 cm on 19.1
23.4 in the morning, we dress the kids in the living room. then we hand lumi her pajamas and she brings them to her room to put on her bed so they are ready for the next night. this morning after lumi left with her pajamas in hand, otso picked up his pajamas and took them toward the bedrooms. the pants fell on the way, but he put his pajama shirt on lumi's bed. it was very cute.
Thanks for posting all this information!!!! Grandma loves it!
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