30 October 2016
23 October 2016
20 October 2016
Otso: 3 Years
Summary
Our little baby is 3 years old! He is still cuddly and needs lots of love. But he is also revealing a stubborn streak, and these days it seems he gets angry at small things.
Learning/Development
His counting is consistent. He likes to practice drawing letters (mostly just the letter O), but sometimes T.
He often mixes up 2 and 5 when he sees them.
Language
He still parrots Lumi, which means he gets lots of English practice at home with her. He wants to speak Finnish, and Kimmo is making a conscious effort to speak more slowly with him so he can get it even with the limited exposure.
He likes the color green but can't say it right. It comes out like "bean". That said, he gets frustrated if we say "bean" and we mean green, so he can definitely hear the difference.
Toys/Games/Other
Favorite toys: cars, little figures, legos, geomag
He loves Legos. He is showing signs of creativity with them, and will build his own designs (mostly airplanes).
Social
He has friends at barnehage! He is starting to be more social in his play, and he plays consistently with the same friend most days. She is apparently a handful and lots of fun. He mentions her when he's getting ready for barnehage, like "Should I show her this shirt?" And even toward the end of this month, there is a little crew of buddies that run around together.
He loves to give a " smooch " to Lumi, äiti, or isä. He often does not give a warning, and instead comes at you like he's about to bite you. Then if you pull away he sadly says," I was going to do a smooch!" But also before he leaves for the day, in addition to a hug, demands "äiti! smooch!"
He really resists muskari (finnish music class) for some reason.
Eating
He is still good at eating protein and vegetables. He doesn't like sandwiches, which makes his "tour day" lunches trickier for us. We make muffins and include one, which seems to help.
4.10 he wouldn't even try fish cakes
15.10 getting a bit more flexible about having raisins or chocolate chips in a cookie or bun. He really enjoyed the raisins in his pulla on the way to muskari.
We started a tradition of going to McDonald's after muskari. He likes the french fries and the milk to drink. He doesn't like the breading on the nuggets.
He likes fish sticks but he often peels the breading off.
Sleeping
He has been resisting naps for quite some time, so we decided to go ahead and say "no naps" at barnehage, unless he requested it (previously we had asked that they really try to get him to sleep). Then on 24.9 he slept right through muskari and missed the whole thing.
2.10 he slept until almost 8. It was incredible.
He mostly goes to bed without too much effort, and then comes to sleep next to Äiti at some point during the night.
Health
mid -month he was recovering from a cold, and was coughing a little and was a little snotty. He doesn't usually like to blow his nose, but sometimes he cooperates.
Stats
Clothes: size 98/104. Shoes: size 26.
Teeth: 20
Weight: 15.8 kg on 31.7
Height: 96 cm on 9.9
Events
21.9 soiva Sammakko teatteri
25.9 Eplets Dag
2.10 Nelli over to play
4-7.10 isä gone
9.10 toni & helmine & amalie over to play; suomi kerho
10-12.10 isä gone
14.10 helmine spent the night
15.10 muskari
20.20 birthday!
Random
24.9 Isä was [unwittingly] sitting on otso's paper airplane. otso kept asking about his plane, and kimmo couldn't see it, and they discussed it for a while, while otso got increasingly frustrated (because he knew it was under kimmo). finally kimmo said "mitä sitten tehdään?" (translation: what should we do?) and otso replied "i want you to get off your peppu and look under there!" :)
october 8-9 was a rough weekend, for reasons unknown. he had several tantrums in response to very small triggers. ugh -- same with the next weekend.
He can get very frustrated with his sister when she involves him in games and he doesn't want to be involved. She put an imaginary medal around his neck when he won a race and he got furious. If she walks by and touches him on the head or shoulder, he will scream "DON'T DO THAT LUMI!" and then try to hit her.
He doesn't understand or like pet names. If you say "hi, cutie" he will respond "i'm not a cutie, I'm Otso."
20.10 after a bite of birthday cake, he happily said "it tastes like pizza!"
Our little baby is 3 years old! He is still cuddly and needs lots of love. But he is also revealing a stubborn streak, and these days it seems he gets angry at small things.
Learning/Development
His counting is consistent. He likes to practice drawing letters (mostly just the letter O), but sometimes T.
He often mixes up 2 and 5 when he sees them.
Language
He still parrots Lumi, which means he gets lots of English practice at home with her. He wants to speak Finnish, and Kimmo is making a conscious effort to speak more slowly with him so he can get it even with the limited exposure.
He likes the color green but can't say it right. It comes out like "bean". That said, he gets frustrated if we say "bean" and we mean green, so he can definitely hear the difference.
Toys/Games/Other
Favorite toys: cars, little figures, legos, geomag
He loves Legos. He is showing signs of creativity with them, and will build his own designs (mostly airplanes).
Social
He has friends at barnehage! He is starting to be more social in his play, and he plays consistently with the same friend most days. She is apparently a handful and lots of fun. He mentions her when he's getting ready for barnehage, like "Should I show her this shirt?" And even toward the end of this month, there is a little crew of buddies that run around together.
He loves to give a " smooch " to Lumi, äiti, or isä. He often does not give a warning, and instead comes at you like he's about to bite you. Then if you pull away he sadly says," I was going to do a smooch!" But also before he leaves for the day, in addition to a hug, demands "äiti! smooch!"
He really resists muskari (finnish music class) for some reason.
Eating
He is still good at eating protein and vegetables. He doesn't like sandwiches, which makes his "tour day" lunches trickier for us. We make muffins and include one, which seems to help.
4.10 he wouldn't even try fish cakes
15.10 getting a bit more flexible about having raisins or chocolate chips in a cookie or bun. He really enjoyed the raisins in his pulla on the way to muskari.
We started a tradition of going to McDonald's after muskari. He likes the french fries and the milk to drink. He doesn't like the breading on the nuggets.
He likes fish sticks but he often peels the breading off.
Sleeping
He has been resisting naps for quite some time, so we decided to go ahead and say "no naps" at barnehage, unless he requested it (previously we had asked that they really try to get him to sleep). Then on 24.9 he slept right through muskari and missed the whole thing.
2.10 he slept until almost 8. It was incredible.
He mostly goes to bed without too much effort, and then comes to sleep next to Äiti at some point during the night.
Health
mid -month he was recovering from a cold, and was coughing a little and was a little snotty. He doesn't usually like to blow his nose, but sometimes he cooperates.
Stats
Clothes: size 98/104. Shoes: size 26.
Teeth: 20
Weight: 15.8 kg on 31.7
Height: 96 cm on 9.9
Events
21.9 soiva Sammakko teatteri
25.9 Eplets Dag
2.10 Nelli over to play
4-7.10 isä gone
9.10 toni & helmine & amalie over to play; suomi kerho
10-12.10 isä gone
14.10 helmine spent the night
15.10 muskari
20.20 birthday!
Random
24.9 Isä was [unwittingly] sitting on otso's paper airplane. otso kept asking about his plane, and kimmo couldn't see it, and they discussed it for a while, while otso got increasingly frustrated (because he knew it was under kimmo). finally kimmo said "mitä sitten tehdään?" (translation: what should we do?) and otso replied "i want you to get off your peppu and look under there!" :)
october 8-9 was a rough weekend, for reasons unknown. he had several tantrums in response to very small triggers. ugh -- same with the next weekend.
He can get very frustrated with his sister when she involves him in games and he doesn't want to be involved. She put an imaginary medal around his neck when he won a race and he got furious. If she walks by and touches him on the head or shoulder, he will scream "DON'T DO THAT LUMI!" and then try to hit her.
He doesn't understand or like pet names. If you say "hi, cutie" he will respond "i'm not a cutie, I'm Otso."
20.10 after a bite of birthday cake, he happily said "it tastes like pizza!"
16 October 2016
daycare playground
norwegians are amazing -- this seems like a super-dangerous thing to have in a daycare playground, where toddlers play all day in icy conditions for several months of the year. but the adults are amazing, so clearly they are doing something right.
09 October 2016
06 October 2016
03 October 2016
Lumi: 5 Years, 8 Months
Summary
Same as usual: she is growing and gradually understanding more of the world. We are pleased with her kindness most of the time, and pleased with how she is learning to control her temper.
Social
At the theater performance, she was very vocal and participated a lot.
She enjoys her friends and seems to be friendly with most kids at barnehage. It's wonderful to see. She is generally kind, as far as we can see.
Leisure
Favorite toys/activities: legos, crafts
On 18.9, we went to the grünerlokka market day. Lumi went on a trampoline, strapped into a harness with attached bungee cords. She was able to jump very high into the air and loved every second of it. She kept saying "I'm flying!". Then she went on a giant inflatable slide, and also had a wonderful time.
Kimmo showed her a bunch of domino art videos on youtube and she was fascinated.
Learning
She told Grandma that she wants to read. She is focused on letters a bit lately, and told Kimmo that reading/writing is easier in Finnish (editor's note: she is correct).
11.9 we sorted through her coins, and discovered she had almost enough to buy a lollipop for her and Otso. Kimmo and I made up the difference, and we went to the Joker shop to do it. She was quite proud, especially when Otso thanked her for the treat.
She has lots of interest in gravestones and graveyards lately, which gave way to a hilarious response on 25.9 when we asked her what we should put on her gravestone: You guys are going to be dead before I'm going to be dead. Maybe my kids will put something on it. " And then she told us that she would die before Otso, and he then insisted that he would be dead first before Lumi. :)
Language
She has been working on her Finnish, and it shows. It seemed to flow a bit better when mummu was here.
Food
Favorite foods : berries, melon
She claimed to not like restaurants, but then requested to go to the Nighthawk Diner. We went for brunch on 18.9 and all enjoyed it.
We have had a couple weeks now where food isn't a big issue for her. It is wonderful from our point of view. She still doesn't like most things we serve (e.g. she claims to hate all soup) but she will suck it up and eat a few pieces of protein and vegetables.
28.9 Barnehage trip to Geit Myra, where they cooked their own lunch. She touched a fish tail and fish bones and chopped carrots and beets "with a sharp knife".
Health
5.9 big bump on the head, had to be picked up early from barnehage
18.9 maybe a UTI? we treated it with red & black currant juice and it seems to be cleared up.
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 don't have to deal with too much resistance with the tooth brushing around 19:00, when they are so tired. Luckily Lumi isn't too problematic in this regard (though she can move very slowly sometimes).
Stats
size: 110 (5T) or bigger in most clothes. 29 shoe.
height: 112 cm on 9.9
weight: 17.7 kg on 31.7 (but then 16.9 at the pool on 14.8)
favorite color: blue
favorite food: watermelon
Events
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
18.9 grünerlokka market day -- trampoline and bouncy slide
21.9 picture day, soiva Sammakko teatteri
24.9 muskari, McDonalds with Leon & co.
25.9 Eplets Dag
30.9 dinner at Toni's house
2.10 Nelli over to play
Random
She loves looking at herself in the mirror. She flips her hair around and twirls her skirt. We have been insisting that she has to wear it braided or something contained like that, because of lice incidences at barnehage. She seems to actually enjoy wearing her hair in more interesting styles (nothing too crazy -- just braids in different patterns).
28.9 "it's good that Otso is becoming a big boy. I don't want any little boys in my house."
Same as usual: she is growing and gradually understanding more of the world. We are pleased with her kindness most of the time, and pleased with how she is learning to control her temper.
Social
At the theater performance, she was very vocal and participated a lot.
She enjoys her friends and seems to be friendly with most kids at barnehage. It's wonderful to see. She is generally kind, as far as we can see.
Leisure
Favorite toys/activities: legos, crafts
On 18.9, we went to the grünerlokka market day. Lumi went on a trampoline, strapped into a harness with attached bungee cords. She was able to jump very high into the air and loved every second of it. She kept saying "I'm flying!". Then she went on a giant inflatable slide, and also had a wonderful time.
Kimmo showed her a bunch of domino art videos on youtube and she was fascinated.
Learning
She told Grandma that she wants to read. She is focused on letters a bit lately, and told Kimmo that reading/writing is easier in Finnish (editor's note: she is correct).
11.9 we sorted through her coins, and discovered she had almost enough to buy a lollipop for her and Otso. Kimmo and I made up the difference, and we went to the Joker shop to do it. She was quite proud, especially when Otso thanked her for the treat.
She has lots of interest in gravestones and graveyards lately, which gave way to a hilarious response on 25.9 when we asked her what we should put on her gravestone: You guys are going to be dead before I'm going to be dead. Maybe my kids will put something on it. " And then she told us that she would die before Otso, and he then insisted that he would be dead first before Lumi. :)
Language
She has been working on her Finnish, and it shows. It seemed to flow a bit better when mummu was here.
Food
Favorite foods : berries, melon
She claimed to not like restaurants, but then requested to go to the Nighthawk Diner. We went for brunch on 18.9 and all enjoyed it.
We have had a couple weeks now where food isn't a big issue for her. It is wonderful from our point of view. She still doesn't like most things we serve (e.g. she claims to hate all soup) but she will suck it up and eat a few pieces of protein and vegetables.
28.9 Barnehage trip to Geit Myra, where they cooked their own lunch. She touched a fish tail and fish bones and chopped carrots and beets "with a sharp knife".
Health
5.9 big bump on the head, had to be picked up early from barnehage
18.9 maybe a UTI? we treated it with red & black currant juice and it seems to be cleared up.
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 don't have to deal with too much resistance with the tooth brushing around 19:00, when they are so tired. Luckily Lumi isn't too problematic in this regard (though she can move very slowly sometimes).
Stats
size: 110 (5T) or bigger in most clothes. 29 shoe.
height: 112 cm on 9.9
weight: 17.7 kg on 31.7 (but then 16.9 at the pool on 14.8)
favorite color: blue
favorite food: watermelon
Events
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
18.9 grünerlokka market day -- trampoline and bouncy slide
21.9 picture day, soiva Sammakko teatteri
24.9 muskari, McDonalds with Leon & co.
25.9 Eplets Dag
30.9 dinner at Toni's house
2.10 Nelli over to play
Random
She loves looking at herself in the mirror. She flips her hair around and twirls her skirt. We have been insisting that she has to wear it braided or something contained like that, because of lice incidences at barnehage. She seems to actually enjoy wearing her hair in more interesting styles (nothing too crazy -- just braids in different patterns).
28.9 "it's good that Otso is becoming a big boy. I don't want any little boys in my house."
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