September Begins

Please look at this image with the eyes of a garden owner, who’s husband has just put a weed-stopping cloth along the whole hedge, and dressed it with lots of gray sand. To a weed-less future!

Ex-garden-dwellers.

Emma on the carousel and the Farm Animal park, yet again.

… aaaand on the train, yet again!

Working on her digging skills.

Next in line to go one circle on horseback.

It looks like she’s riding on her own, but if you look closely you can see the blue rope the assistant is tugging on.

After we got home, Bjarki nestled into his favorite spot.

Smile!

We’d managed to invite Elsa and Þráinn over for dinner, during one of Þráinn’s stops in the home country.

Lots of commotion as people help themselves to fish-soup and bread.

“I don’t love fish soup!” Our Emma is going through a phase of not wanting to try “new” foods. Oh the joy!

I went out for a late-afternoon light-jog/walk before dinner. I found autumn colors, and Google auto-enhanced the experience.

Up by the Buddha stupa. Walking up there is a nice warm-up, and the view always makes me happy.

That’s as far as I went before turning back.

That’s Bjarki up there! And to think a couple of years ago he was all dejected because he couldn’t climb up the rope. Practice matters!

I hope Anna forgives me for sharing these snaps she sent me. The kids were using a microscope at school, and wanted to record what they saw, so Anna grabbed her school-issued iPad, and shot…

… this image of the cells of an onion!! I think that’s pretty darn cool!! 🙂

Homework time!

Emma’s daycare closed down at noon, but we couldn’t get babysitting (from Finnur’s parents) until a little after noon. I used the opportunity to take her to the mall, to hunt for some winter boots. First, a small refueling session!

I always check out the selection in one particular clothing store, next to this plane. This time there was also a long line of people there, to pick up ticket’s to the Justin Bieber show going on that night.  We didn’t go.

Bjarki’s now straddling the kid-adult line in shoes. He still (barely) fits into 35, but that’s the end of the line in most kid shoes. Future bummer!

Adda asked me to photograph the 2×70 year old (!!!) birthday party of her parents’, and of course I said yes!

It was a grand party, and I took A LOT of photos, they can be found HERE. Google assembled this collage automatically, and who argues with a computer?

Finnur’s oldest sister, Eyrún, is now a grandmother! Her grandchild was named that day, Hallgerður Katrín, and I plan on making there is now a separate post for that occasion. (Until then, consider this a placeholder for a link to images from the naming party!)

After the party, I apparently ended up with Bjarki at the mall, probably trying to buy winter shoes for him. He ended up getting bribed with a smoothie in exchange for working on his homework!

Anna took a photo of Bjarki and commented “The Oh-you’re-taking-a-photo face.” Funny girl.

It was decided to hold an all-hands-on-deck meeting at work to brainstorm about future stuff. To cut down on interruptions, we moved to a meeting room Marel owns down by the docks of Reykjavik. It was a nice change of scenery.

The guys in my extended group. Yup, no women except me, myself, and I. But they’re all great, so I don’t complain!

Anna generally doesn’t carry a phone on her, but she’s glued to her iPad. Thus, messages like “don’t forget piano!” get sent via snapchat, and hangout. Brave new world!