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!