Emma’s 10th Birthday Parties, Gymming & Summer Housing
[Photos taken 11 – 28 February 2023, posted online 14 October 2023. There’s a bit of white stuff on the ground, it won’t last.]
We had no sooner arrived from Tenerife than it was time to prep for Emma’s 10th birthday! She ended up getting three parties, one with each family-wing, and one with her classmates.
As February went on, I took an annoying number of selfies in the gym, the weather did all sorts of things, yule lights came down as the daylight stayed for longer, the yard got a bit of attention, and we managed to make sure the summer house was ok. Then February was over!
Snow-People Day
[Photos taken 05 – 06 April 2020, posted online 26 September 2020. Covid wave #3 is in progress, but contact tracing and quarantine being used more than strict restrictions which are still at 200 people per space, strangers 1 m apart at minimum.]
We woke up one April morning to the results of a massive overnight snowfall. It turned out it was perfect snow-people making material. (40-ish images)
Sunday 05 April 2020
Emma Turns 7 Years Old
[Photos taken 12 – 16 February 2020, posted online 31 July 2020. No more lovely weather, as a deep low pressure area will be visiting over the weekend. Most weekend events cancelled anyway as a result of Covid-19 reappearing.]
Our Emma is now 7 years old. She got a mini-celebration on her actual birthday, and a proper party a few days later. Little did we know that would be the last family party for a long while. (35-ish images total)
Wednesday 12 February 2020
Emma’s 6th Birthday Party
[Photos taken 10 March 2019, posted online 01 September 2019. The leaves are beginning to change colors, the sky is blue, and the wind is chilly.]
Poor Emma had been too sick with the flu around her birthday in February to hold a party, and then we went to Florida, so she didn’t get a birthday party until a month after her actual birthday!
She was mostly ok with it, but certainly asked often enough when it would be that there was no chance of forgetting it completely. (10 images total)
Sunday 10 March 2019
Nap-Drive and Emma
[Photos from 17 – 18 April 2016, posted online 27 April 2016. Evening light is upon us.]
We can still trick Emma into napping in the afternoon by driving her around for a bit. We like to do so before we’re having visitors over for dinner, or visiting someone for dinner. Usually she falls asleep in five minutes, but this time she was super wired, and took half an hour to nod off. Therefore I ended up in our back-country, which I found to be surprisingly pretty.
Also, this was the week Emma had chicken pox, and she spent most of it at her grandparents’ place. (7 images total)
Sunday 17 April 2016
Emma took a long time to fall asleep so I ended up in the back-country to our fair city. I’d never been there before! This is the parking lot where you park to go walk up on Helgafell.
Sandbox, Pippi, and Chicken Pox
[Photos from 12 to 16 April, posted 17 April 2016. Laptop got plugged in.]
Some photos of Emma and Bjarki playing in the sandbox in the sun, Emma with a Pippi Longstocking (Lína langsokkur) hairdo, and Emma with chicken pox. Boohoo! (10 images total)
Tuesday 12 April 2016
Tuesday was a lovely day, and almost warm enough to skip a jacket… but not quite. The kids hung out in the sandbox for a bit, until we hit kitty litter.
Emma’s 3D Art & Rainy Windows
[Photos from Monday 7 March 2016, posted online 10 March 2016. Feeling speedy!]
Emma’s newest thing is to stack sticky things together. On the plane to and from England for example, she went through a whole sheet of stickers, and stuck them all on top of each other on a piece of paper, instead of spreading them out.
This wet and windy afternoon, she thus took it upon herself to fetch paper, scissors, and glue, and created quite a stack of glued-together paper-pieces. The mother (that would be me) dutifully documented the results of her hard work, as well as the rain streaming down the living room windows. (4 images total)
Emma (in photosmile mode) with her 3D artwork.
Emma’s 3rd Birthday Party
[Photos from 21 February 2016, posted on 25 February 2016. In a galaxy far, far away…]
We celebrated Emma’s third birthday with a family party. It was pretty interesting trying to get everything done with one adult hopping about on one foot, but we managed.
Photos! (28 images total)
Three-year-old Emma, getting sung for.
Emma Ósk is 3 Years Old
[Photos from 12 February 2016, posted on 16 February 2016. It’s light out until 6:30 pm!]
Our adorable munchkin is now 3 years old! (9 images total)
Daycare sent us this fun image of Emma!
Emma Vs. Water Vs. Gravity
[Photo from Friday 14 AUGUST 2015, post from 1 November 2015. The weather’s different now.] Bumped into this photo of Emma playing with street water, probably after returning from daycare. Sometimes the phone camera comes through!Read more