Lumi: 5 Years and 2 Months

Summary
The big events of the month were mostly centered around Easter (which is a 5-day weekend here in Norway). Also, she started reading! She had a couple of weeks of great progress sounding out words, and now she has taken a step back.

Events
6.3 swimming with helmina
13.3 suomi kerho
17.3 easter breakfast at barnehage with parents
19.3 sognsvann and pizza with Helena
24.3 trip to the legevakt and diagnosis

26.3 barbeque with Maja and family

26-27.3 barnas båt cruise to denmark

28.3 easter egg hunt

3.4 ride on the old tram, swim class

Language
She basically refuses to speak Finnish. Kimmo speaks Finnish to her, and she responds in English.
12.3 at the asian restaurant, she asked for "friendships" when she meant "shrimp chips"
We started a "letter of the day" project, just going through the alphabet and each day trying to find and talk about things that start with that letter. Lumi has really taken to this.
She is very frustrated about the C vs K sound in english, though, to the point where she will angrily respond "no!" if i tell her a word like "cat" begins with a C and not a K.
She has started saying "heart!" instead of something like "i love you" at the end of conversations.

Learning
7.3 she read her first words! she had memorized books before but now she was actually sounding the words out using the letters and putting them together. 
11.3 showered herself, with a bit of coaching from the sidelines
17.3 learned how to flex her biceps to show off her muscles.

Social
She seems mostly happy with her friends at barnehage.
18.3 maja came over to play
22.3 went to maja's house for dinner

Leisure
She loves her beads and My Little Pony.
13.3 she was very interested in the music teacher and her piano and ukulele.
23.3 watched Ice Age 2 mostly all the way through, even the scary part at the end. she thought most of the scenes with Sid were great. 

2.4 watched Ice Age and Sammy's Adventures, again through the scary parts

Food
16.3 cheerfully ate shrimp from the curry at dinner, plus informed us how much she loves "fiske boller" that she eats at barnehage.
19.3 refused to eat the pizza at helena's house, but happily helped helena's dad make pizza. afterward, she declared she is going to be a "pizza man" when she grows up (but still not eat it).

28.3 all of a sudden, neither kid is interested in eating cheerios

30.3 sampled marmalade and was very disappointed

Health
22.3 sore throat at night
23.3 stayed home with a fever + sore throat + rash
24.4 google + advice from dr. nikki said we should go to the doctor (and it had to be urgent care, since it is now easter holidays). lumi behaved abominably. she kicked and screamed and fought whenever people tried to touch or look at her (with the notable exception of when the doctor listened to her lungs and looked in her throat, which she had practiced with isä). they couldn't even take her blood pressure, despite several tries and the switch to the baby equipment because she was so insane. and we even had to be removed from the fun kids' waiting area because her screams were upsetting the other kids. 
anyway -- strep throat + rash = scarlet fever => penicillin

Stats
size: 110 (5T) in most clothes. 28 shoe.
height: 109 cm on 1.3
weight: 16.1 kg on 6.3

Random
13.3 to äiti : " When you sing your voice seems beautiful."

21.3 after watching the kids dump lemon pepper on salmon, rice, vegetables, and even bread, i said "you guys are junkies." and lumi responded "No! You're junkies!" then a few seconds later "What is that?"

26.3 in the cruise cabin tiny bathroom 'it's quite nice in here! '

28.3 we hunted easter eggs in the morning at home, then re-hid and hunted them several times. lumi got good at hiding eggs, and really enjoyed that aspect. she still isn't good at the idea of looking under things, but she showed promise.