Lumi: 4 years and 5 Months

Summary

This end of the month marks a big transition for all of us. On July 3rd (her 4 years & 5 months day), we take the kids to this barnehage in Stavanger for the last time. In 2 days, we will leave our dear friends behind, and the only home Otso knows, and the only home Lumi really remembers. 

She has had a good month and is mostly cheerful. I think she is excited about the move.

Events
6.6 farm in randaberg
7.6 vitenfabrikken
10.6 sommerfest at barnehage
14.6 first self haircut, "traffic playground" in sandnes
20.6 goodbye to diego + gemma + amy + filippo
21.6 hike to månafossen
27.6 Leo's Lekeland with Silja and Henri, Victoria's birthday party, bbq with the neighbors 
28.6 Soma Gård with isä (äiti was away for the day)

2.7 movers packed up everything

3.7 last day of Lasse Liten barnehage

Language
Her Norwegian is great and people compliment her on how well she speaks (considering her immigrant parents).

Learning
She is practicing writing. One very tricky thing is that the vowels sound different in her different languages. For example, the letter "y" is known by 3 different words. This means when she is asking for help spelling something, she has to parse out who is speaking and what they call each letter.
21.6 while we were in the car she asked something like "when kids are grown up do they still have grown ups?" so she was asking what happens to the parents when the kids are grown up. we explained that we will still be there for her to call and talk to even if we don't live together, and then we reviewed that grandma is my mother and grandpa is my father and then she asked about mama dollie and who her parents are and who she is the parent of. it was a good discussion; i only felt sad that we weren't home so we didn't have the pictures to look through. she has seen lots of pictures of matt and valerie and jake and natalie, and jeannie and beau and isabel and liberty and this would have been a good time to connect everything.

Social
She is really going to miss her friend Lily from barnehage.

This month she went to a birthday party for one of her friends from barnehage. A couple parents (me included) stayed and we all agreed it was fascinating to watch the kids interact because even though we go there every day we only see the transition and we don't see them all together playing. Lumi behaved like I expected: not exactly shy, but slow to warm up and she really takes her time to assess a situation before she feels comfortable.

Leisure
She loves biking around and is getting stronger and faster. She also loves the scooter she borrows from Gemma.
13.6 we tried the balance bike and while she prefers her pedal one, she will use the balance bike. it's both lighter and quieter, so i prefer her to use it when we go on an errand where there are hills when i might be expected to carry the bike.

Food
She still refuses food a lot, and refuses to even try. Only the occasional temptation of a dessert will make her try something relatively new. A couple of those times she discovered some new proteins: roast beef and stir-fried shrimp.
22.6 we pan-fried salmon filets and she voluntarily asked for some and ended up eating about 50g. we were so pleased, as we normally have to prompt her for even a couple bites.

Health
15.6 came home feeling stuffed up and cranky.

Stats
size: 104 (4T) in most clothes (though some 4T shorts slide off her hips and some 104 are too small). Any new purchases are in size 110 (5T) or bigger. 27 shoe (though this varies widely by brand). She seems to have destroyed the (reinforced) toes of her sneakers, and we're not sure how. Maybe dragging her feet when she swings or bikes?
height: 104 cm on 7.6
weight: 15.1 kg on 23.3

Random
5.6 she has been singing the Norwegian national anthem a lot.

About the move: she keeps announcing to people that we are "never coming back." it sounds ominous, especially because she is so cheerful about it.

7.6 she keeps singing the Doc McStuffins theme song, and she often sings "i like it under the weather" instead of the line "when you feel a little under the weather".

14.6 she was happily practicing with her scissors cutting up some ribbon and then announced, "äiti, i cut my hair!" there was a big chunk from the back of her head missing. we tried to play it cool, since 1. we like how she looks with her hair short and 2. i had given her a trim yesterday and it wasn't even so i had wanted an excuse to clean it up.

23.6 we were explaining how the landlord/lady came to inspect our apartment:
A: "Today Tor Magne and Torunn came by to..."
L (interrupting): "celebrate!"