Otso: 3 Years, 4 Months

Summary
Otso has emotional highs and lows. He has spectacular tantrums that can last about an hour. On the other hand, he enjoys making other people laugh so his happy moments are wonderful.

Learning/Development
He is getting better at putting on his own clothes. He loves to show off how he can get his winter suit arms on all by himself.
However, the tantrums are growing. He is clearly frustrated about his lack of control, and the slightest frustration can send him stomping off to his room (or under the kitchen table) to cool off. His rages are longer, and he is less able to come back from the blind fury. Also new : when he gets really angry, he takes off clothes - socks, pants, underwear. He throws them on the floor outside the bedroom.
He seems to have outgrown the little potty and potty seat reducer. He just uses the normal toilet, with a stool to help his legs reach.

Language
Classic "L"  and "R" mix ups, like "blake" things instead of "break" them. This comes up a lot, because every day he does at least one jigsaw puzzle, and every evening he gets upset when they need to go back in the box ("noooo, don't blake it!").

Toys/Games/Other
He loves puzzles and some card games (Go Pup and Old Bone are favorites) and some board games (kids' Sequence is a favorite). He is very speedy with jigsaw puzzles, and at barnehage he does them too. We got a couple new puzzles this month, including a 160-piece one for kids 5 years and up. Otso can do it with some help.
He loves the movie "Totoro".
4.2 At the skating rink, at first he didn't want to try at all. Then he wanted to try on the skates, but cried when he found how slippery it was. Then we put the boots back on. After a snack, he wanted to try again. He enjoyed when isä skated around the rink holding him up in the air. Then he liked when isä skated around the rink, holding him, but with his skates on the ice. This was exhausting for kimmo to skate hunched over with 15 floppy kilos in his arms, but otso's smile was so big and the shouts of "again! again!" were so insistent that isä did it over and over.

Social
He has a few friends at barnehage, but also likes to play by himself.
12.2 he had a great time with Eino at suomikerho. They played with the cars, and slid on the ice outside together.

Eating
He still tries to leave in the middle of dinner almost every day. Then he comes back after everyone else is done and finishes his meal. We are working on this, and have started to introduce the concept of "yes, you can leave, but then you can't come back".

Sleeping
He prefers that äiti stay in the bedroom until he falls asleep. And then at some point in the night, he comes to äiti's bed to sleep.
He doesn't sleep with a soft animal ; he prefers little toys he can hold in his hands, like a hard plastic Dory fish or a plastic spiderman.
27.1 he went to sleep cuddling a DVD box from the library.
We have had a few nights lately where he wants to go immediately to the parents' bed instead of going to sleep in his own bed. While both parents would prefer otherwise, we usually cave because the kids share a room and we don't want Otso ruining Lumi's sleep.
13.2 he slept in his own bed the whole night

Health
False alarm about chicken pox this month. Perhaps he had a *very* mild case, or perhaps it is yet to come.

Stats
Clothes: size 104/110. Shoes: size 27/28.

Teeth: 20
Weight: 15.8 kg on 2016-07-31
Height: 99 cm on 2017-01-06

Events
20-26.1 kimmo gone
21.1 women's march
27.1 Disney On Ice
3.2 lumi's birthday
4.2 ice skating
5.2 lumi's birthday party, sledding with isä
12.2 suomikerho
18-20.2 Lankinen visit

Random
When otso is in the bathroom when I ( äiti) am on the toilet and he sees my thighs go past the sides of the toilet seat, now he informs me "you are too big for that potty! you have to get a bigger one!". so basically he thinks i am too fat for a normal toilet. :)

8.2 while putting on clothes in the morning, he showed him balls and said,  "these are my vulvas." then he pointed to his penis and said, "and this is my other vulva."

9.2 was happily waving his arms around, slapping himself on the bottom, when he slapped himself too hard and started crying. Both parents did a decent job of hiding their laughter.

11.2 claims his favorite Adele song is "Who has it" which we assume is "rumor has it".