Lumi: 7 Years, 3 Months

Summary
She is doing well, and seems to be happy. She is ready for school to start, it seems. We are just biding time now until August.

Social
14-15.4 she had a very social weekend: lots of time outside playing with friends in the neighborhood. she biked around with them and played at our house and at their houses. It was good for her; her peers keep her behavior in check better than her brother does.
She played with Clemence but was enthralled with little Marie.

Leisure
She doesn't have a favorite "toy", so to speak. She enjoys workbooks and art projects, and taking care of stuffed animals.
She was never a huge princess fan, but now she is definitely out of that phase. She loves cute animals and such.
She plays in the basement a lot on the gymnastics rings.

Learning
She is reading more and more confidently. But she still likes to have adults read to her, thank goodness.

Language
During the vappu weekend, our friends visited from Stavanger. Lumi said she understood their Norwegian, but it was difficult to speak it. She was really interested, though.

Health
Her arm muscles are visibly larger since we put up the rings in the basement.

Events
6.4 Heidi and Ari for dinner
11.4 Lankinens and mummu for dinner ; saw Ella musical with esikoulu class
18.4 Touko and Kuutti for dinner
21.4 spring open door event at Otso's päiväkoti
27.4 päiväkoti closed for the day; she got to visit the Teradata office
27.4 - 1.5 the DuPuis family visit!
28.4 Viena birthday party
30.4 she got to stay home with the DuPuis family
1.5 vappu
2.5 conference with eskari teacher
3.5 vaari babysat

Random
14.4 she and Otso rode their bikes around the neighborhood without adult supervision.

20.4 for the carnival at Otso's päiväkoti, we are taking a shift to help sell balloons. Then Lumi told Otso, "and I'm going to give free balloons to all the kids!", which was a sweet impulse but we had to say no to protect the fundraising nature of the event.