Otso: 3 Years, 9 Months

Summary
The big event of the month was leaving Oslo and moving to Helsinki. He did not have strong friendships in Oslo, so he is not missing the friends quite like his sister. But he is definitely frustrated with all the confusion and lack of routine.
In the new house he has his own bedroom and he is very upset when Lumi does not allow him into her room.

Learning/Development
He likes to count.
In Finland, riding in cars is new. For the first day, at every red light he demanded "why are we stopping?!"

Language
Now that we are in Finland and we hear more Finnish around, he is speaking more. At first he said "he talks like vaari!" but now it's becoming clear to him that this is normal. He says "hyvää päivää!" instead of "hyvää yötä" to mummu.

He has lots of cute English constructions, like instead of "we bought" he said "we buyeded"

One thing that always comes in Norwegian is the request for someone to push him faster on the swing, so he says "more fahrt!" or "big fahrt!"

Toys/Games/Other
He loves cars and legos. I brought home a catalog of Legos from the toy store and he calls it the "batman magazine". He is interested in the classic Batman toy, "with the blue helmet".

27.6 trip to grocery store to use up Norwegian coins, and the kids got spinners

The Leikkipuisto in Maunula has a shallow pool, which has been a godsend to us. It's refreshing on a sunny day and it is such a novelty that the kids are very happy to go there.

Social
He is primarily focused on the family, instead of outward with other kids. That said, he does have fun at barnehage with other kids.
Rolv gave him a sweet going away present -- a Karius and Baktus mug

When he is angry, he calls people "baby".

The move has been hard on the kids because we have had work to do at the house, and we have been staying in vaari's apartment. It was a disappointment to not move in immediately. Otso seemed okay at first, but now his temper gets the better of him often. He goes from seemingly okay to enraged in a matter of seconds. We have been asking Lumi to just not engage with him, even if it seems like he's having fun, simply because it has so often turned into a fight.

Eating
Favorites: eggs, ice cream, pancakes
He only likes milk and water to drink, and sometimes hot chocolate.
He does not like maple syrup, or icing on cake, or fruit in his ice cream, or juice, or other fruit-y sweet things.
He liked the pigs-in-a-blanket served at sommerfest.
He does not want to eat strawberries, but he likes hunting for them. He loves the peas from the garden in Nakkila, even though last year he did not want to try them.

Sleeping
He is resistant often at night when trying to get to sleep. But he rarely comes into the parents' bed anymore.

Health
He still wants us to be "really careful!" every time we are near any of the ouches -- the cut from last month on his forehead, or his knees.

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

Teeth: 20
Weight: 17.6 kg on 2017-05-12
Height: 102 cm on 2017-05-21

Events
21.6 barnehage "sommerfest"
25.6 Oliver's birthday party
29.6 moving truck, night in hotel
30.6 last day of barnehage, fly to Finland
11.7 kids and äiti drive to Nakkila
17.7 drive to helsinki, first night sleeping in the new house
18.7 movers arrived

Random
30.6 He said that his food went into his mouth and into his tummy (sort of a quote from Peppa Pig) but then he added "and into my legs!"

12.7 he had some great descriptions of items we were searching for :
 When Mr. Lau was missing, he said to Lumi, "if you see something black, and fluffy, with a black tail, that's Mr. Lau."
When we couldn't find the moose slippers, he said "they are brown, and they have eyes."