Parenting Lecture, Sporty School, and Winter Break – The Warm February

Attending a lecture on parenting in general, and in particular dealing with the iPad our town helpfully supplies all kids in 5th grade and up to have with them at all times.

Wise words.

We’ve yet to actually implement this, but this is a formal contract regarding computer use. This one is for the kids.

Here’s the one for parents.

Daycare had all the kids write numbers on a piece of paper, and then glued the numbers on the floor leading from the entrance of the main hallway to the entrance of the classroom. Emma’s number was 10, and every time she walks to her class, she stops and marvels at it, as she should. 🙂

We finally got our Saturday morning act together this January, and started taking Emma to the “athletics school”. It’s just an hour every Saturday morning, but she seems to like it.

Blurry bouncy Emma!

Oh, we parents are just terrible with our phones out all the time. Let me take a photo of that!

Playing with the net turned out to be more fun than playing with the ball!

The schools were closed for winter break that Monday and Tuesday, so we decided to take advantage of it being “our week” at the summer house at Laugarvatn. (Every fifth week is “our week”.) Óli tagged along with two of his girls, as his other two girls were on the other side of the country.

The weather was unseasonably warm and borderline foggy.

Cosy by the fire.

Sisters making salad.

Lighting a fire in the morning. Finnur supervising.

Very focused.

Warm fuzzy feelings!

One game got played, as we were packing and cleaning up.

SNOW! FINALLY! February had been so warm that trees were starting to bud, and there were reports of birds preparing nests. Thankfully, winter finally came through and dumped a bit of snow down.

Awww… so nice!

My first instagram image. I posted a bit and then promptly stopped. Maybe I’ll get better at it.