Lumi: 6 Years, 4 Months

Summary
The overall mood shaping her life right now is exciting change: her peers at barnehage are headed to school in the fall. We are preparing for the move (and selling a lot of furniture, which changes the scenery inside our apartment!). She is excited about the move but also sad to miss the beginning of school here. She is also sad about leaving her friends but excited to meet new friends in Finland.

Social
She is really excited about a new girl in her group at barnehage.

She enjoyed her grandparent time in Stockholm. She read books with Mama Dollie and joked with Grandpa and snuggled with both.

She seems to make friends easily and happily, and one of the things she is most excited about for moving is "new friends". For example, one Sunday we went for a short bike ride in the park. She befriended the girl and scored an invitation to her house the next day.

She was kind with Rolv (even though he was really Otso's playdate)

Leisure
We have been going back and forth about what kind of scooter to get for her. Up until recently, we had planned to leave her 3-wheel scooter (which is broken in a couple of places but rides okay) behind and get her a 2-wheel scooter in Finland. But since she tried Gemma's 2-wheel scooter in Italy, she realized it wasn't as easy to transition. We now have a plan to take her old scooter with us but to buy a new 2-wheel one in Finland and let her gradually get used to it.

Lately, favorite sibling games include:
 "Christmas morning" -- they fill Isä's wool socks with toys and enclose other toys in bigger boxes, then announce that 'Santa came!' and they open them up
 "Traveling" - they pack the toy suitcases and bags with other toys and then get on the bus (a couple of chairs pulled together) or the plane (the sofa) and go somewhere

In Stockholm, our AirBnB had a pole in the living room. She spent the weekend trying to climb higher and higher and on Sunday morning she climbed high enough to touch the ceiling. It was impressive to see her keep trying and get better and better.

She got to swim in the pool at Eino's house. She enjoyed it quite a bit.

Learning
She is alert to letters in words now and has said she wants to read. She likes to try to sound out words and write them down.
8.5 when i arrived at barnehage to pick her up, she was sitting along at a table, writing "flags" as she had sounded it out. she had also written "cat" and "lumi 6 år".
She has some new hiking boots with laces, so we are working on learning to tie shoes.
21.5 she did her own ponytail and barrettes!
She really wants to learn to write. We do some exercises and she works a little bit on it but it's definitely slow going and she doesn't want to "study".
31.5 she can tie her shoes! she likes the "bunny ears" method.
1.6 learned to jump rope

Language
She is really making an effort to speak Finnish lately, especially when she isn't tired.

Food
She is skeptically exploring tastes. She tried a sip of beer but declared that it was disgusting.

Health
She has continued to have great health and generally avoids colds. We are lucky!
She has trouble relaxing into bed now that its still so sunny at bedtime, and she has been using an eye mask (leftover from a plane).

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 2017-05-21
weight: 19.4 kg on 2017-05-12
favorite color: "rainbow"

Events
7.5 Helena's birthday party
12-14.5 weekend in Stockholm with Grandpa and Mama Dollie
20.5 playdate with Atrisa
21.5 Helmine's birthday party
25.5 holiday; playdate with rolv
26.5 teacher planning day, home for the day
27.5 barbecue at Eino's house
28.5 barbecue at Hans' house in Fornebu
2.6 playdate with Toni

Random
12.5 when watching the ground from the plane, she said " it looks like a map! "