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."