Lumi: 6 Years, 3 Months

Summary
She has had an emotional month. One minute she is kind and generous, and the next she is petty and unpleasant.
But her kind and generous moments are wonderful to see (things like pretending to race Otso but letting him win and telling him how fast he is) and the petty moments have us despairing for her future.
She has been excited about our upcoming move, but she has now realized it will mean saying goodbye to her friends and that makes her sad.

Social
Our visit to Milan was interesting socially: she really enjoyed Diego and Gemma, but argued with Gemma a lot.
26.4 started mentioning that she would miss her friends after she moves from Oslo.
1.5 Sanni was at the Vappu picnic and they had a lot of fun together.

Leisure
She liked trying the two-wheel scooter but seems to prefer the bike now. She and Gemma really tussled over the use of Gemma's bike when we were in Italy. But now she let Kimmo raise the seat of hers a bit.

We tried a small loop with her biking next to Äiti. It was fun, but definitely tired her out and she had a meltdown in the afternoon.

She liked the Netflix show "Puffin Rock".

Also we're back on a Mamma Mia kick. She loves to sing "Honey Honey" especially and seems enamored with Amanda Seyfried.

Learning
She is alert to letters in words now and has said she wants to read.

Language
Eino's family friends were visiting (Swedish and Dutch languages) and Lumi and the little girl played together -- Lumi spoke Norwegian and the girl spoke Finnish and it seemed to work out.

Food
She definitely enjoyed the food in Italy -- she loved the pasta and the cookies for breakfast.
She is still anti-sauce and anti-most things to eat, but lately she will suck it up and eat a few pieces of protein.

Health
She has all 3 other 6-year molars busting through the gums!

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
8.4 visit Eino's new house in Lillestrom
9.4 suomikerho
13 - 17.4 trip to Milan
16.4 visit with the Chismans (plus bonus Sydney, Isabel's friend)
23.4 trip to Fornebu
30.4 grilling at Sognsvann
1.5 Vappu picnic in Frogner park

Random
8.4 she admired the wild and unruly beard of Eino's father and said Kimmo should grow his like that.

10.4 we have been looking at a nice list of "Family Rules" that consist of things like "Help Each Other" and we have been casually discussing them one at a time. When "Be Grateful" came up, she really enjoyed it, and then out of the blue the next day she said "I'm grateful for rain because it makes flowers grow." She sounded like a perfect angel. She also said she was grateful that Hermes ' owner let us cat sit him for a few days.

21.4 another kid at barnehage threw her glove into the construction pit next door; kimmo had to go into the pit to get it on Saturday

22.4 i served her a pancake in the shape of a jellyfish and pointed out the tentacles. she later announced "i'm eating the testicles now!"

29.4 "when I grow up I want to marry a handsome boy."
Q: What makes someone handsome?
A: A black shirt with a white shirt underneath.