Summary
Otso is straddling the line between baby and kid. He likes to play with his sister and her friends, and isn't interested in baby toys. But he loves to cuddle and this month he has regressed to sleeping in a crib.
21.5 play with Helena
22.5 tram museum, over at Helena's house for Joachim's birthday
28.5 Victoria's birthday party
29.5 play date at Oliver's house
5 - 9.6 isä gone
6.6 helmine joined us for dinner
11.6 helena joined us for dinner
18.6 Maja birthday party
19.6 Raija birthday party
20.6 toni joined us for dinner
Learning/Development
Both kids have been enjoying a new chore: throwing the trash bags down the chute. kimmo closes and ties the bags and then leaves them in the kitchen. the first kid who finds it is allowed to throw it out (open the door to the service elevator closet, open the hatch to the chute, put the bag in the hole, and close the chute).
He is learning colors. His current toothbrush is blue and red and often when he points out something blue he says "like my toothbrush."
30.5 we had a meeting with the barnehage teacher (Frank). Otso seems to be progressing at the normal rate across the board. We did some troubleshooting about the potty accidents, and agreed that next year he will go upstairs to the Mango group instead of being in Kiwi with the babies.
Often when he doesn't understand something you say, he'll repeat it with a questioning voice.
- me: You probably want to use a spoon to eat that.
- otso: "use a spoon to eat that?"
It's usually very polite and cute.
" Shrek " is " feck "
"Lightning McQueen" is "Lightneen McKeem"
After he recently saw the movie "Cars", Kimmo produced toy McQueen and Sally cars. Otso thinks he is McQueen and Lumi is Sally, and often he makes a point of bringing the toy Sally to Lumi. Lumi sometimes likes this but often does not and it can get very frustrating for both of them because Otso continues to try to hand it to her even after multiple "I don't want it!" statements from Lumi.
28.5 we watched Cars 2. He yelled at the screen almost the entire movie, enthusiastic about seeing characters: "there's my car!" "there's lumi's car!" "there's Mater! " He was very loud and the rest of us don't know what happened in the movie because we missed most of the audio due to Otso.
He has a couple favorite teachers at barnehage (Signe is the #1) and doesn't seem to like some others. He still isn't really interested in his peers.
At the birthday party on 28.5, i got to watch him with his peers from barnehage. He took a while to warm up, but eventually spent a very happy 20 minutes with a little group on the balcony, tossing balloons over the railing to the ground below and pretending to be very sad about it (until someone retrieved a balloon for them, at which point it was merrily tossed over again).
Eating
23.5 enjoyed burgers, but with lemon pepper on them
23.5 enjoyed burgers, but with lemon pepper on them
22.5 offered cheesecake -- he was very upset and refused to try it
since it's warmer, kimmo has been buying melons to share with the kids in the evenings. they love it.
He still is resistant to going to bed and staying in bed. Some nights are harder than others.
And almost 100% of the time he comes to sleep with äiti at some point during the night. Then he gets restless, and I take him to pee. Then he relaxes and sleeps well until morning.
5.6 skipped nap and slept easily at bedtime, right through morning.
When he was sick he was so restless that we set up the travel crib for him. He seems to like it.
31.5 Mouth hurting. Maybe that last tooth is coming.
9-10.6 sick and stayed home from barnehage
Clothes: size 98/104. Shoes: size 25 or 26.
Weight: 15.1 kg on 8.5
Height: 93.5 cm on 1.5
He says red is his favorite color.
28.5 after story time, Lumi and Otso were sweetly hugging each other and saying good night, when Otso grabbed Lumi's arm and asked "Can I eat this?"
He hates wearing pants/shorts/underwear. At the first opportunity, he usually takes them off. Our rule is that he has to have some layer of fabric on his bottom to sit on the sofa or at the kitchen table. Because of this, meals often start in tears because we have just forced him to put some underwear on.
16.6 update to this: he has had several days where he keeps his pajama pants on at night (a positive development!) but then one of the first things he does upon awakening in the morning is take his pants off.
Evening quote from 13.6 : "I want to hit Lumi. I want to watch TV. "
