Summary
The big change this month is complexity of speech. He makes sentences and shares opinions. He seems comfortable in Finnish, English, and Norwegian. They say at barnehage that he is talking all the time now, and we see the same thing at home.
Events
20.11 new tooth
22.11 ice skating with Toni (otso just watched), swim class
24.11 stayed home from barnehage
The big change this month is complexity of speech. He makes sentences and shares opinions. He seems comfortable in Finnish, English, and Norwegian. They say at barnehage that he is talking all the time now, and we see the same thing at home.
20.11 new tooth
22.11 ice skating with Toni (otso just watched), swim class
24.11 stayed home from barnehage
27-29.11 visit from Diego and Gemma (and parents!)
7-10.12 stayed home from barnehage
11.12 lucia dag celebrations at barnehage
12.12 baerum verk & pancake house
19.12 we opened all the christmas gifts from the american side of the family!
20.12 pancakes with viviane and family, afternoon at pedro's house
He seems to have lost interest in walking to barnehage. And since he is close to 15 kg, it's not so easy to carry him.
He can count to 10 in Norwegian.
Language
Sentences are popping up all the time.
Sentences are popping up all the time.
1.12: "What Isä doing?" It was cool to hear him construct that kind of question for the first time.
He still has a lot of little phrases that only parents can understand, like "sap" = "sit on your lap".
When he sees a picture of Santa, he says the Norwegian word "Nisse".
"Christmas" is pronounced something like "missmiss", as in "missmiss tree", "missmiss cookies", etc.
He has a bit of a lisp.
He and Diego had a great time playing together.
Little figurines are still quite popular. He carries them around and puts them on things.
He also loves the Skype "dancing monkey", and is really enjoying Google's "Santa Village". We played the games on there every day while he was home sick.
20-22.11 he ate quite poorly and (either consequently or due to being) very grumpy.
He is still sharing a room with Lumi, though we are thinking of changing that.
He is starting to be able to blow his nose. He knows what he has to do (close mouth, push air out through nose) but he doesn't blow hard enough to do anything.
23.11 had fever in the evening and wouldn't eat
24.11 still a bit feverish; stayed home.
25.11 had to pick him up a bit early because he wasn't feeling well.
5.12 horrible fever in the evening
6.12 stayed inside all sunday to rest, fever again at night
7-10.12 fever again; stayed home from barnehage
Clothes: size 98. He wears size 23 shoe, but those are getting tight.
Weight: 14.6 kg on 11.11
Height: 88 cm
otso knows what he wants but can't always say it (among other frustrations, no doubt), so we often get horrible tantrums out of the blue. for example, he'll just be calmly sitting there, and point to the water cup and say "water," and then you ask him "do you want water?" and then he nods, and then you hand him the cup. and then he collapses face down on the floor and sobs. sometimes he'll throw the cup of water at you before collapsing.
he throws in anger, and he has a strong arm.
often we hear lumi singing and then otso responding with his little "no, mumi!" because apparently he doesn't enjoy it.
just want you to know I LOVE having these kid updates since I can't see them all the time - thank you, thank you, thank you!
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