Lumi: 6 Years, 2 Months

Summary
Lumi continues to grow little by little. This month we have had the pleasant transition from winter to spring, and she is happy to be out on her bike and scooter again.

Social
Helmine is her best friend.
She played some with Clémence during the visit, but by the last day she was very frustrated and having a hard time sharing.
She liked having a baby around and said that Marie really likes her.

Leisure
She really likes this stuffed animal her friend has, and uses a kind of weird baby voice for it.
First shooting toy: a figure with a gun that shoots a plastic projectile (kind of like a dull dart?), from McDonalds.
17.3 They watched the movie "Inside Out" at barnehage (in part of a unit on feelings) and she loved it so much that she watched it 4 times in English over the weekend.
She loves working with scissors. She calls it "clipping" (norwegian = 'klippe'). She did paper dolls with vaari, and she also likes to put a sticker on paper and then cut that out.
She has mostly embraced the idea of giving clothes that are too small to a younger kid, and same with toys. Especially in anticipation of the move, it is truly wonderful. On 25.3, she helped me clean out the costumes and she was impressively cutthroat and we got rid of about half our box.

Learning
She was delighted to start spelling a few short words like "no" and "ei". She seems to be inching toward reading, and trying to sound out new words.
14.3 she made her own bed! We haven't even asked her to do that.
22.3 she was proud that she did her on ponytail in the morning. she said it wasn't perfect but it was done. :)

Language
She still speaks English to Kimmo most of the time, but her English and Norwegian come easily.

Food
6.3 she pushed aside the mini hamburgers (which used to be the only way we could get her to eat burgers) and took two regular sized hamburgers and announced "six year olds don't eat mini burgers".

She did a great job eating while Vaari and Leena were here. She tried lots of things, and gamely ate most of the items. I mentioned this during their last dinner here and Lumi explained, "that's because they make such good food!". Note: she also was a keen observer when vaari was prepping the fish.

20.3 she ate a few leaves of fresh spinach off my plate and declared it "delicious".

Health
New tooth! Her two bottom front teeth are growing in, but she also got the first eruption of a 6 year molar (top right).
(I suppose we have to admit that we did not expect them and after a week of a weird bump back there we scheduled a dentist appointment to check it out. Lumi had suggested that it was a tooth, and I did not think so. She was delighted to be right, and even more delighted that äiti was wrong.)

Stats
size: 116 (6 in US size), sometimes 122 (7 in US). She has long limbs and needs the extra length. size 30 or 31 shoe.
height: 117 cm on 2017-02-10
weight: ?
favorite color: "rainbow"

Events
3.3 "fargefest" at barnehage
4.3 playdate with oskar
5.3 ice skating with helmine
8-13.5 Vaari & Leena visit!
10.3 Korketrekkeren sledding
12.3 Suomikerho
13.3 day home with Vaari and Leena
12-17.3 isä gone for work trip
20-22.3 isä gone for work trip
21.3 dinner at Helmine's
25.3 first bike outing for the spring!
26.3 Sofienberg playground
31.3-2.4 Neighbor visit
31.3 cat sitting begins -- Hermes is staying with us
2.4 Leon birthday party

Random
7.3 she helped put away the clean silverware from the dishwasher and thought it was fun and announced that we should always ask her to do it. she has continued to do it!