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?"