She's gone from saying sentences of 3-5 words to ones about 30-50 words long. Vocab has continued to skyrocket, with lots of cute pronunciations.
- ‘portant with emphatic nod of the head when talking about certain things that she deems are ‘important’ to happen (an example: her and Judge made some flowers with the new pompoms we bought, and she told me she took pictures of them…it was ‘portant (serious emphatic nod of head))
- Loves to play with her ‘pasic seeds’ (plastic beads … those kind that you make into patterns and iron, though we skip the ironing step and thus have unlimited play with the same limited amount of beads)
- Potato has recently gone from ‘peto’ to ‘pepeto’
- Loves to sing her own made-up songs and ‘melodies’
- Has started to take over ‘takabaw’ (term originated from us asking her if she wants us to ‘talk about today’ after she nurses before she sleeps at night)
- Has started to sometimes talk to herself in Norwegian, not just Mandarin
- Has gotten much more confident on her bike – walks herself slowly down hills and coasts down small inclines (her bike seems to be the only balance bike in the village, causing the bigger kids in kindergarten to be extremely amazed that she didn’t have practice wheels)
[And of course loves to get herself some sticks]
- She loves to look at pictures and watch videos of our lives on the computer or her camera or our phones…trying to determine how this screen-time impacts her (positive is that she gets to remember my mom and the people in Taiwan and things we have experienced)
- She has started to play her first computer game – tap tiles; also trying to determine how this screen time impacts her (the positive is that she uses her matching skills and has to understand the concept of a tile that is ‘locked in’ and how to free it)
- She is still great at playing with Eliana, not to say that she sometimes doesn’t want Eliana to come mess with what she’s playing with. And she always finds way to join in on what Eliana is interested in at the moment:
- Still doesn’t eat anything else than butter on her bread and waffles
- She loves to eat whipped cream (was introduced to the wonderful world of licking the cream-whipper a couple weeks ago), cookie dough (when we make oatmeal cookies) and…waffle batter…
- Changed to a new tooth paste about a month ago; she asked me to leave the bathroom so she could brush her teeth, and when I opened the door to check on her a while later I caught her sitting beside the sink (on the counter), toothpaste tube in hand, tongue on the lick. Her reaction: Oh, you opened the door~!
- I have learned to fully trust her in her judgment of whether she needs to go to the bathroom or not (and she has yet to wet the bed even once!); she hasn’t had an accident since last time I wrote in
- And of course because I wrote that, when she came down later that morning she had wet her bed, and later that day she peed on the floor…perhaps the stress of the kindergarten visits? No idea…Luckily after a week with one more wet bed and one or two more wet pants she went back to 'listening to her body'
- She's big into painting, and here (above) you see her discovery of what happens (getting a mirror image) when you fold a paper that you've painted on. She had folded it on her own accord, and the look on her face when she opened it again and saw what had happened was priceless. Yay for self discoveries!
She misses Taiwan and the playgrounds (there aren't many playgrounds in Innvik where we can go meet other kids - just at the elementary school and the fenced-in kindergarten - and that's because everyone who wants has the space and money to buy their own trampolines, swings and slides...) she still really likes our life here, I think. She gets to take the bus in to the small town (population 5000) where Judge takes Norwegian classes with him once in a while, where they go buy food, visit the library, and go to playgrounds. She loves it.
She's caring, funny, active, and her own life's commentator.
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