29 September 2017
20 September 2017
Otso: 3 Years, 11 Months
Summary
It has been a good month. As mentioned last month, he is really blossoming at the new päiväkoti. The teachers note that he is very cheerful and happy, and generally great to be around.
Learning/Development
He loves to do "tricks" with his fingers and cross fingers, or make the devil horns, or whatever, and then say "can you do this?"
He has started to lie about things, often claiming to have brushed teeth when he has not.
Language
His Finnish comes more easily these days. The English is still there and strong at home, but he easily responds to Kimmo in Finnish.
To Kimmo's delight, he is working on his Finnish "r" sound, and it shows.
To Angela's amusement, this affects his English speech too. He still has a "fr" for a "tr" so instead of "triangle", he says "frrriangle" because the R is a bit more rolled than before.
Toys/Games/Other
He seems quite happy at his new day care. He can't answer much about what exactly he does there.
His favorites at home are cars and Legos. He is also interested in board games -- sequence, alias, etc
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As is his style, he was reluctant at gymnastics and wanted to just watch. But the part that got him pulled in despite himself was the crab walking. he ended up having a great time and is excited to go back next week.
He seems to have good resistance to the television. he won't just watch whatever is on, even during kids' programming.
Social
He has a little buddy at päiväkoti.
Eating
He still loves food, but often wants to complain about it first. For example, we went to a new restaurant and ordered French fries for him. They were a different shape from the fast food ones he is familiar with, so he cried and got angry and refused to eat, and hit anyone near him. But after ten minutes, he tried one and announced "these are good!" and finished the whole basket.
Sleeping
He is still struggling to get to sleep at night on the days when he goes to päiväkoti. We suspect that they let him nap as long as he wants. He usually wants us to stay in his bedroom while he tries to sleep, but it can easily take 30 minutes.
Stats
Clothes: size 104/110. Shoes: size 29.
Teeth: 20
Weight: 17.6 kg on 2017-05-12
Height: 102 cm on 2017-05-21
Events
26.8 Lankinen sleepover
7.9 babysitter!
14.9 perheliikunta class
16.9 stayed out until after 20:00, and the kids were delighted to see that it was dark. First time in many months! Lumi said that it was beautiful.
Random
27.8 when I told him "you have a cute nose", he responded "you have cute hands."
13.9 describing a fart : "my peppu said 'boom!'"
12.9 "when my belly wants to get out a kakka, my peppu opens up and the kakku falls into the potty!"
When people ask how old he is, he usually responds "Kohta neljä" or "Soon four" .
18 September 2017
Sunny Sunday
It was lovely weather yesterday and we were outside quite a bit. Even the gravel "yard" was appealing.
11 September 2017
03 September 2017
Lumi : 6 years, 7 months
Summary
The big event this month was the start of esikoulu, or "eskari", or "preschool".
Social
She has befriended a couple of kids at eskari. Some days are harder than others, and those are the ones where she misses her old friends. She says she is friends with all the girls in her class, and that is more than she had in Oslo.
Leisure
She has been playing "dance performance" with her cousin Elsa.
This month we started read "The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe" together. She really liked it.
Learning
The first day of eskari was a success! It is of course pretty stressful to get into a new place with a new routine, but overall she enjoyed it. She didn't want to leave when we arrived to pick her up.
Now she wants to be picked up about the same time as everyone else, which is a bit earlier than äiti can get there.
Language
14.8 while watching TV with Otso, she casually commented on it in Finnish. This marks the beginning of a new era in which they don't only speak English to each other.
Food
She was brave about trying the food at eskari on the first day. It's not her favorite, but most days she accepts the challenge like a big girl. At the barnehage in Norway, she always had to taste the food and then if she didn't like it they gave her bread and cheese. Here, she just needs to eat what is there.
14.8 trying a new system : eating the porridge at preschool instead of breakfast at home.
15.8 she really wants to eat breakfast at home, and then have the second breakfast at preschool.
This has continued : she eats two breakfasts most days.
Stats
size: 116 (6 in US size), sometimes 122 (7 in US). She has long limbs and needs the extra length. size 31 or 32 shoe.
height: 120 cm on 2017-08-05, at Linnanmäki
weight: 19.4 kg on 2017-05-12
favorite color: "rainbow"
Events
4.8 drive to Helsinki
5.8 linnanmäki
7.8 first day at new day care / preschool; lankinen visit for dinner
10.8 first esikoulu lesson
12—13.8 Vuori family reunion
20.8 playdate with Viena and Eelis
26.8 Lankinen sleepover
1.9 play date with Vilma
Random
16.8 she claimed that I picked her up too early from eskari, and that the day when she was literally the last child there was better, because she had her choice of the toys to play with. I questioned her, asking if she didn't feel unloved when we were that late, and she responded that she would definitely feel unloved if we didn't show up at all.
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