Lumi: 6 Years, 10 Months

Summary

Lumi has had a fairly good month. She is more and more interested in her peers, and things happen at eskari that we do not know about. 

Social

She is making more friends at eskari and seems more settled. 

She was helpful when we hosted Thanksgiving. We put her in charge of helping guest take off coats and put them in the right place, and she did great.

Leisure

She likes role playing games using dolls or stuffed animals, and also making crafts. 

She seemed to enjoy the music class we went to. She got to sing a lot and play a couple of instruments. She played the djembe, the electric guitar, the bass guitar, and a drum set. Her favorite was the drum set.

She seems to have hit a new level of understanding of the world where she is not as scared of things on TV and can handle more complex things. We watched a lot of the first Harry Potter movie -- she got too scared to continue after the 3-headed dog, but she enjoyed watching Quidditch.

Learning

She is learning new words all the time, and generally enjoying reading. She can read through a lot of baby books, especially ones she is familiar with. The big difference is that she seems bolder -- she does not get as easily frustrated when she doesn't know a word and therefore can push herself toward longer texts.

Language

Her Finnish is getting stronger by the day. Now I would say the two languages are getting closer in her mind. She is forming casual sentences more easily in Finnish than before.

She loves Mad Libs.

Food

She likes to rate new foods with a thumbs up or thumbs down. It has helped her to try things.

Events

3.11 first sauna in the new house 

9.11 isänpäivä breakfast at päiväkoti

10-12.11 weekend in Nakkila

15.11 try the music class

19.11 perhesähly (floorball) 

24.11 Thanksgiving meal; hosted a dinner

25.11 visit from Sami and Ilona