Lumi: 5 Years, 10 Months

Summary
Fun month ; half of it was on vacation in the US. She is socially confident and fun to be around.

Social
4.11 barnehage teachers said that she is friendly with everyone , and can play with everyone . It felt so good to hear that !
20.11 we're staying at grandma's house in Ball Ground GA. Uncle Troy and the cousins are here. Zoe and Lumi have hit it off.

Leisure
She is currently in full out Paw Patrol obsession.
She loved playing school with Sophie as the teacher.
She competed in her first race on Thanksgiving day in Atlanta : the 50 yard dash.
She enjoyed the magic kit at grandma's house, and it has affected her imaginative play. Things become her "magic" tools. And since she went to bed holding her toy and when she woke up it was on the night stand, she insists she can do magic.
She enjoyed Disney World. She liked the junior roller coaster a lot. Other favorites were the Little Mermaid story and Splashdown Mountain.

Learning
Reading is on the back burner again. She has fun looking for letters and such but sitting down to practice reading books isn't interesting for her.

Language
During the US trip she really explored the fact that her name translates to a word in English. She pretended to be a cat named Snow Rose Mountain. And when people had trouble with her name, she explained that it was Finnish for snow.

Food
She is pretty good about eating these days. She had a hard time at first in Georgia finding things she liked.
Our first morning in Florida, Mama Dollie made French toast. After much encouragement, Lumi tried a tiny piece. Then she was hooked! She requested it every morning and mama Dollie indulged her.

Health
She likes to sleep in her sleeping bag. We made a rule that she can do that on the weekends .
14.11 Stayed home from barnehage because she had a light fever.
14.11 we saw the tip of her new tooth coming through the gum.

Stats
size: 116 (6 in US size). She has long limbs and needs the extra length. size 30 shoe.
height: 112 cm on 9.9
weight: 18.2 kg on 19.11 at airport
favorite color: "rainbow"


Events
5.11 muskari
6.11 Ola's birthday party
6-11.11 äiti gone
10.11 Emilia's birthday party
12.11 Adrian's birthday party
13.11 Suomikerho
19.11 flight to the US
20.11 go to Grandma's house, see cousins
21.11 science museum
24.11 Thanksgiving, race
26.11 Troy and family left
27.11 drive to Florida
29.11 Disney World (just äiti and Lumi ; no little brother)
30.11 Blue Springs Park, St John River cruise
1.12 Legoland
2.12 Christmas steam train (with Santa!)
3.12 flight home to Oslo

Random
When I was telling her about going to see manatees she asked "Is it with skin or just bones?". Sounds like too many museums and looking at fossils and not living animals. :)

30.11 she went to bed holding her little Ariel toy, then when she woke up it was on the bedside table. So she claimed she can "do magic!" and spent the day bragging about it.

1.12 claimed she wants to ask Santa for a wheelchair