Living Room Kids

Pics from the living room this afternoon. (11 images total)

The last image I took, but the only (decent) one with all three kids. Bjarki was kinda busy playing on the Wii though! (This was post-6 pm.)

Emma’s Room

I’ve been dragging my feet in posting about this (I didn’t want to jinx things!!) – but Emma moved into her own bedroom on 30 December 2013, and has slept there, quite well, ever since.

The long story is that she was slowly but surely killing me by repeatedly waking up at night, and yes, her crib was in our bedroom.

By the end of November, things were getting a bit better, but the midnight feeding kept moving all over the place, sometimes all the way until 2 am.  That’s when the chorus of women around me started chanting ‘drop the midnight feeding’, and I figured… why not?

On 01 December, Finnur flew off to the USA, and I decided to stop sleeping in my own bed.  Instead, I moved full time to the single bed in the door-less ‘office’, i.e. the fourth (bed)room on the second floor.

And lo and behold, Emma stopped waking up at night!!  (I also kept going to bed very late so I didn’t wake up to every whimper and complaint, so that ‘helped’).

When Finnur returned some two weeks later, I kept on sleeping in the office, except for a few nights where I tried sleeping in my own bed.  The conclusion was always the same: Emma slept worse with me in the room (of course, she could care less about Finnur!).

What needed to happen was clear: Emma had to move into the ‘office’, except it had no door.

After some prompting and prodding from Guðrún, I called around to see what a door might cost.  Of course the door-opening is non-standard (almost two doors wide, but not quite), so we were looking at either a) a very expensive custom-made double door, or b) a cheaper single door with a wooden panel on the side, either as a DYI project, or employing a carpenter.

Being female, I decided to go for option c) (that’s a joke for Augusto 🙂 ) and hang thick curtains to cover the opening and call it a day! (10 images total)

It struck me one day that we still had a set of thick-ish Ikea curtains on a semi-permanent loan from Holla. We’d originally used them to cover our bedroom window in our rental apartment during our first year back in Iceland.  Amazingly, I managed to finish hemming them the day after we put them up.  I guess I’ve learnt my lesson after too many hemming projects that I let linger half-finished for years…