A nice father-daughter chat
31 January 2018
24 January 2018
20 January 2018
Otso: 4 Years, 3 Months
Summary
It is a good start to the new year. Otso likes to play and is making new friends.
Learning/Development
He is carefully looking at a lot of words. He enjoys the Brain Quest question packs.
He likes to "read" to others, using books he knows well, like the Sandra Boynton books. I was impressed when he did the Doggies book, and remembered most of the different barks.
We have a couple months of free HBO from our utility company, and the kids are enjoying the different cartoons. The favorites are "We Bare Bears" and "Be Cool Scooby Doo". Otso keeps saying "Scooby Doo is so funny".
Language
Grandma's presence has helped, but more frequently he gets frustrated with English and just shuts down instead of responding.
The week without Isä in January gave the English a boost too.
Toys/Games/Other
Favorites: lots of games for Christmas, as well as a paw patrol Chase doll.
Social
Over Christmas, he is missing his friends. He was thrilled to get back to päiväkoti to see everyone.
Eating
He did not eat very well at Christmas time. He usually does well with the protein but this time we couldn't convince him to try many different days.
Now we are a couple weeks out from Christmas, and his eating has rebounded somewhat. He still likes good meat, which helps.
He also is getting ever so slightly better at trying things that he is nervous about.
Sleeping
We are experimenting with moving bedtime a bit earlier, and reducing his nap time at päiväkoti.
Health
He does not like to take the chewable vitamin D tablets, but he does enjoy the vitamin bears.
I convinced him to try a fluoride tablet, and he liked it. Now he does fluoride after the evening brush with Lumi.
Events
20.12 grandma arrived
22.12 stayed home from päiväkoti with grandma
23.12 drive to Nakkila
24.12 Finnish Christmas
25.12 American Christmas
26.12 party at Anna and Matti house
28.12 Hukka visit
31.12 New years eve, grandma babysat
4.1 goodbye to grandma
5.1 back to päiväkoti
12-19.1 Kimmo gone
14.1 Vaari took him to perhesähly
18.1 play date at Joppe's house
Random
He still enjoys watching Paw Patrol and he often laughs out loud at the jokes. It's cute to hear him let out these big guffaws while he watches.
It is a good start to the new year. Otso likes to play and is making new friends.
Learning/Development
He is carefully looking at a lot of words. He enjoys the Brain Quest question packs.
He likes to "read" to others, using books he knows well, like the Sandra Boynton books. I was impressed when he did the Doggies book, and remembered most of the different barks.
We have a couple months of free HBO from our utility company, and the kids are enjoying the different cartoons. The favorites are "We Bare Bears" and "Be Cool Scooby Doo". Otso keeps saying "Scooby Doo is so funny".
Language
Grandma's presence has helped, but more frequently he gets frustrated with English and just shuts down instead of responding.
The week without Isä in January gave the English a boost too.
Toys/Games/Other
Favorites: lots of games for Christmas, as well as a paw patrol Chase doll.
Social
Over Christmas, he is missing his friends. He was thrilled to get back to päiväkoti to see everyone.
Eating
He did not eat very well at Christmas time. He usually does well with the protein but this time we couldn't convince him to try many different days.
Now we are a couple weeks out from Christmas, and his eating has rebounded somewhat. He still likes good meat, which helps.
He also is getting ever so slightly better at trying things that he is nervous about.
Sleeping
We are experimenting with moving bedtime a bit earlier, and reducing his nap time at päiväkoti.
Health
He does not like to take the chewable vitamin D tablets, but he does enjoy the vitamin bears.
I convinced him to try a fluoride tablet, and he liked it. Now he does fluoride after the evening brush with Lumi.
Events
20.12 grandma arrived
22.12 stayed home from päiväkoti with grandma
23.12 drive to Nakkila
24.12 Finnish Christmas
25.12 American Christmas
26.12 party at Anna and Matti house
28.12 Hukka visit
31.12 New years eve, grandma babysat
4.1 goodbye to grandma
5.1 back to päiväkoti
12-19.1 Kimmo gone
14.1 Vaari took him to perhesähly
18.1 play date at Joppe's house
Random
He still enjoys watching Paw Patrol and he often laughs out loud at the jokes. It's cute to hear him let out these big guffaws while he watches.
17 January 2018
10 January 2018
03 January 2018
Lumi: 6 Years, 11 Months
Summary
Lumi loves Christmas, so this month was especially fun. She enjoyed having Grandma, who takes special interest in her, around.
Social
She is pretty happy with her friends at eskari. Also our neighbor Viena drops by often to play, which is nice. The girls seem to have a good time together.
Leisure
She likes singing a lot. Her teacher says the hard part is getting her to slow down and sing at the correct pace.
She is practicing cart wheels a lot.
She still loves swim class every week, but she is very ready to be done with gymnastics.
She loves crafts. Christmas gifts included lots of projects, including knitting. It was more complicated than she expected. Grandma brought a "sun catcher" painting kit and she really enjoyed it.
She complained about the fireworks noise, but said they were beautiful.
Learning
She baked chocolate chip cupcakes for the Suomi 100 party and they were gobbled up. She enjoyed the baking process.
She can confidently read the "Emerging Reader" level books in English. She is working at Level 1, but needs help with the bigger words.
Language
Her Finnish is stronger every day, but her English gets a boost because her favorite books (currently the "Secret Kingdom" series) are in English.
Food
She did a good job trying different foods at Christmas.
Health
She is getting more in the habit of washing hands. Sometimes we don't even need to remind her.
Events
5.12 vilma birthday party
6.12 finland's centennial -- party at michele's
9.12 pikkujoulu with vaari and Leena
13.6 Finland centennial performance for päiväkoti
14.6 Finland centennial party at Otso päiväkoti
20.12 grandma arrived
21, 22.12 stayed home from päiväkoti with grandma
23.12 drive to Nakkila
24.12 Finnish Christmas
25.12 American Christmas
26.12 party at Anna and Matti house
28.12 Hukka visit
31.12 New years eve, grandma babysat
2, 3.1 stayed home from päiväkoti with grandma
Random
When grandma was singing Doe a Deer from the Sound of Music, and kept saying the part "and that will bring us back to Doe... A deer...", Lumi asked "um, does this song last forever?"
Lumi loves Christmas, so this month was especially fun. She enjoyed having Grandma, who takes special interest in her, around.
Social
She is pretty happy with her friends at eskari. Also our neighbor Viena drops by often to play, which is nice. The girls seem to have a good time together.
Leisure
She likes singing a lot. Her teacher says the hard part is getting her to slow down and sing at the correct pace.
She is practicing cart wheels a lot.
She still loves swim class every week, but she is very ready to be done with gymnastics.
She loves crafts. Christmas gifts included lots of projects, including knitting. It was more complicated than she expected. Grandma brought a "sun catcher" painting kit and she really enjoyed it.
She complained about the fireworks noise, but said they were beautiful.
Learning
She baked chocolate chip cupcakes for the Suomi 100 party and they were gobbled up. She enjoyed the baking process.
She can confidently read the "Emerging Reader" level books in English. She is working at Level 1, but needs help with the bigger words.
Language
Her Finnish is stronger every day, but her English gets a boost because her favorite books (currently the "Secret Kingdom" series) are in English.
Food
She did a good job trying different foods at Christmas.
Health
She is getting more in the habit of washing hands. Sometimes we don't even need to remind her.
Events
5.12 vilma birthday party
6.12 finland's centennial -- party at michele's
9.12 pikkujoulu with vaari and Leena
13.6 Finland centennial performance for päiväkoti
14.6 Finland centennial party at Otso päiväkoti
20.12 grandma arrived
21, 22.12 stayed home from päiväkoti with grandma
23.12 drive to Nakkila
24.12 Finnish Christmas
25.12 American Christmas
26.12 party at Anna and Matti house
28.12 Hukka visit
31.12 New years eve, grandma babysat
2, 3.1 stayed home from päiväkoti with grandma
Random
When grandma was singing Doe a Deer from the Sound of Music, and kept saying the part "and that will bring us back to Doe... A deer...", Lumi asked "um, does this song last forever?"
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