I got these sippy cups out yesterday to prep them to give away, but they kids wanted to drink water from them.
29 September 2016
24 September 2016
20 September 2016
Otso's 35th Month
Summary
Otso is generally easy going and happy. He still adores his sister and parrots almost everything she says, but when he is grumpy she is also the victim of random hitting, etc.
Learning/Development
22.8 he easily counted 8 things in both Finnish and English.
He can count to 10 now with no issues in English. I'm not sure about Finnish or Norwegian.
Language
He often speaks English to Kimmo, instead of Finnish. This seems to be due to Lumi's influence -- both the example and the exposure to English.
When Mummu was here, he made some leaps in his Finnish. He is saying some more common words in Finnish now when he is talking to Kimmo, like "missä".
Toys/Games/Other
Favorite toys: cars, little figures, legos
He wants us to play with him a lot, and will ask "can you play with me?". He often wants to play "cars", which is basically rolling them around. He also loves playing hide-and-seek with Lumi, where she hides an object and then he has to find it.
He likes games a lot, and is enjoying the Sequence game that Grandpa and Mama Dollie brought.
He is enjoying a Lego "Naboo Star Fighter" that came in the magazine that one of the grandparents bought him. He likes to take it apart and rebuild it using the instructions.
Social
The kids and Grandpa/Mama Dollie have been really enjoying a daily countdown leading up to their visit on whatsapp. Each day they send videos back and forth.
He is getting to be more social at barnehage, playing with peers.
He is buddies with "Bampa".
Eating
He often compares good things to either ice cream or watermelon, or both. ("This tastes like watermelon and ice cream!")
Sleeping
He keeps going back and forth between the crib and the bed. He is still resisting bedtime a lot, claiming to be "not tired" and asking to stay with us.
About midway through the month, we removed the crib from the bedroom. Now he consistently starts the night in the bed, but then often wakes up in the night and comes to the parents' bed.
He sometimes does not nap at barnehage, though we have asked that they really try and that we really prefer it.
We have adjusted bedtime to front load it with tasks (starting at 18:00 with clean up, then right to yogurt and teethbrushing). The idea is that then we can put Otso to be early if he hasn't napped, and that we don't have to deal with too much resistance with the tooth brushing around 19:00, when they are so tired.
Health
A little sniffly toward the end of Grandpa and Mama Dollie's visit.
18.9 coughing and a bit snotty and feverish
19.9 stayed home from barnehage
Stats
Clothes: size 98/104. Shoes: size 26.
Teeth: 20
Weight: 15.8 kg on 31.7
Height: 96 cm on 9.9
Events
21.8 Indonesian Angklung workshop
26.8 Grandpa and Mama Dollie arrive
27.8 "hopp i høyet" festival
28.8 trip to Drøbak
30.8 visit with Tom
31.8 mini golf
1.9 Grandpa and Mama Dollie leave
3.9 played all day with Helena & fam
4.9 Friluftsdagen at Sognsvann
6.9 mummu here!
8-9.9 barnehage closed, stayed with mummu
10.9 muskari
11.9 suomikerho, mummu left
Random
He often says "You want it or not?" very aggressively.
11.9 complained a lot because it was sunny : "there is sun in my ears!"
Overheard: Otso's dialogue between two Lego constructions :
Piece 1: you cannot get me!
Piece 2: I can get you!
Otso is generally easy going and happy. He still adores his sister and parrots almost everything she says, but when he is grumpy she is also the victim of random hitting, etc.
Learning/Development
22.8 he easily counted 8 things in both Finnish and English.
He can count to 10 now with no issues in English. I'm not sure about Finnish or Norwegian.
Language
He often speaks English to Kimmo, instead of Finnish. This seems to be due to Lumi's influence -- both the example and the exposure to English.
When Mummu was here, he made some leaps in his Finnish. He is saying some more common words in Finnish now when he is talking to Kimmo, like "missä".
Toys/Games/Other
Favorite toys: cars, little figures, legos
He wants us to play with him a lot, and will ask "can you play with me?". He often wants to play "cars", which is basically rolling them around. He also loves playing hide-and-seek with Lumi, where she hides an object and then he has to find it.
He likes games a lot, and is enjoying the Sequence game that Grandpa and Mama Dollie brought.
He is enjoying a Lego "Naboo Star Fighter" that came in the magazine that one of the grandparents bought him. He likes to take it apart and rebuild it using the instructions.
Social
The kids and Grandpa/Mama Dollie have been really enjoying a daily countdown leading up to their visit on whatsapp. Each day they send videos back and forth.
He is getting to be more social at barnehage, playing with peers.
He is buddies with "Bampa".
Eating
He often compares good things to either ice cream or watermelon, or both. ("This tastes like watermelon and ice cream!")
Sleeping
He keeps going back and forth between the crib and the bed. He is still resisting bedtime a lot, claiming to be "not tired" and asking to stay with us.
About midway through the month, we removed the crib from the bedroom. Now he consistently starts the night in the bed, but then often wakes up in the night and comes to the parents' bed.
He sometimes does not nap at barnehage, though we have asked that they really try and that we really prefer it.
We have adjusted bedtime to front load it with tasks (starting at 18:00 with clean up, then right to yogurt and teethbrushing). The idea is that then we can put Otso to be early if he hasn't napped, and that we don't have to deal with too much resistance with the tooth brushing around 19:00, when they are so tired.
Health
A little sniffly toward the end of Grandpa and Mama Dollie's visit.
18.9 coughing and a bit snotty and feverish
19.9 stayed home from barnehage
Stats
Clothes: size 98/104. Shoes: size 26.
Teeth: 20
Weight: 15.8 kg on 31.7
Height: 96 cm on 9.9
Events
21.8 Indonesian Angklung workshop
26.8 Grandpa and Mama Dollie arrive
27.8 "hopp i høyet" festival
28.8 trip to Drøbak
30.8 visit with Tom
31.8 mini golf
1.9 Grandpa and Mama Dollie leave
3.9 played all day with Helena & fam
4.9 Friluftsdagen at Sognsvann
6.9 mummu here!
8-9.9 barnehage closed, stayed with mummu
10.9 muskari
11.9 suomikerho, mummu left
Random
He often says "You want it or not?" very aggressively.
11.9 complained a lot because it was sunny : "there is sun in my ears!"
Overheard: Otso's dialogue between two Lego constructions :
Piece 1: you cannot get me!
Piece 2: I can get you!
17 September 2016
10 September 2016
03 September 2016
Lumi: 5 Years, 7 Months
Summary
Though she still has some wild moments, overall she is happy and fun. She is getting braver and more confident in her abilities.
Social
This year they renamed the groups at barnehage, and instead of the "forskolegruppe", lumi is in the "5-års klubben". She seems happy and comfortable, no doubt because she has her group of cronies there and she knows the environment.
21.8 at the barnekunst museum's Angklung workshop, she boldly responded when the host asked "does anyone know what an angklung is?" lumi's answer was a confident "no". she was the only person brave enough in the room of 50. 😃
The kids and Grandpa/Mama Dollie have been really enjoying a daily countdown leading up to their visit on whatsapp. Each day they send videos back and forth.
Leisure
Favorite toys/activities: crafts, Pikku Myy game, riding her bike or scooter
She is enjoying the Sequence game that Grandpa and Mama Dollie brought.
She loved the rock climbing exercise at a festival we went to, and likes to try it at the playground too.
Learning
3.8 She was super-polite at dinner, asking nicely for things and so on.
Grappling with life: we assigned her an additional chore of putting the silverware away when we are emptying the dishwasher. She has really resisted, claiming it's too boring for her.
Language
She continues to speak English to Kimmo instead of Finnish. Her Norwegian seems fine and so does her English.
She does that thing now that is so common to kids her age: she wants to use the correct words and describe everything well, but word selection takes a long time. This means that she can take what seems like a very long time to describe something simple. Äiti needs to be more patient with this.
Food
Favorite foods : berries, melon
She has been gradually more adventurous and likes to "impress" us by requesting funny combinations, or sparkling water at breakfast.
Health
21.8 bit of a runny nose. she said she needed to rest and stay healthy so she wouldn't be sick when Grandpa and Mama Dollie come. 😃
We have been pleased to notice that she is better at sleeping in. She's getting to be more human and simply continuing to sleep when she is tired (instead of that crack-of-dawn thing that toddlers do).
Stats
size: 110 (5T) or bigger in most clothes. 29 shoe.
height: 112 cm on 12. 7
weight: 17.7 kg on 31.7 (but then 16.9 at the pool on 14.8)
favorite color: blue
favorite food: watermelon
Events
5.8 äiti's birthday (out to dinner)
7.8 very rainy picnic in the park with lumi's friends
10.8 playdate with helmine
14.8 swimming, suomikerho
15.8 Lekern after bhg
20.8 Mela festival
21.8 Indonesian Angklung workshop
22.8 playdate at Leon's house
26.8 Grandpa and Mama Dollie arrive
27.8 "hopp i høyet" festival
28.8 trip to Drøbak
29.8 first movie in a theater! "Finding Dory" with Mama Dollie
30.8 visit with Tom
31.8 mini golf
1.9 Grandpa and Mama Dollie leave
3.9 played all day with Helena & fam
Random
Her hair is now long enough that when it falls out it is getting in the drain and it's noticeable.
We started using an Australian kids' meditation app called "Smiling Mind", listening to a meditation exercise before sleep. She loves it, and requests it.
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