Dagbók Hrefnu og Finns

20 Week Ultrasound

2012-10-09Uncategorized Standard

[Written 12 October 2012]

This morning, Finnur and I headed to the diagnostic department at the women’s wing of the main hospital for the 20 week ultrasound. We were greeted by a seasoned ultrasound pro, as well as a student, and for the next twenty minutes or so, all major body parts, as well as individual organs were found, assessed, and accounted for. To make a long story short, everything looked fine and we were given the green light.

Of course we left with a few pictures in tow: 🙂

Here we have the classic ‘I’m sucking my thumb’ picture. 🙂

The underside of a foot, with toes and all. 🙂

The slightly Tim Burton-esque ‘You can see my ~~pupil~~ lens (eye-stone, augasteinn), and some of my teeth!’ There’s hand under the chin.

Of course we asked about the sex (or well, Finnur did. I wasn’t coherent enough to remember!) and it’s a….

A Small Visitor and Fall Colors

2012-09-30Uncategorized Standard

[Written 15 October 2012]

My uncle and his wife went on a childless trip for a few days, and we agreed to entertain their younger cub for a Sunday afternoon to give the other caretakers a bit of a break.

Before our little guest arrived, Anna decided to make coconut-balls (kókoskúlur) from a recipe she got from a friend the day before. (Oh, and during an epically productive day the day before that, Anna got her hair cut short to make combing it easier.)

Our visitor hanging out on one of the swings while the two siblings dig into the sand.

Fully Packed Friday

2012-09-28Uncategorized Standard

[Written 18 October 2012] Out of respect for harried parents who prefer to use their 5 weeks of vacation in large solid clumps, as opposed to a day here and there, the daycare and school in our neighborhood try to coordinate staff-days. The first such day this school year was this past Friday 28 September,Read more

Anna Gets Her Arm Back

2012-09-24Uncategorized Standard

[Written 15 October 2012] Just before Anna went to bed, I summoned her to free her arm from the splint she’d been wearing for two weeks. It took a while to cut through all the layers of cotton and gauze, but we got there in the end. There was a clear difference in muscle massRead more

Attack of the Organizational Monster

2012-09-23Uncategorized Standard

[Written 15 October 2012] On this pretty Sunday the whole family got wrangled into a car and taken on a 5 minute drive to Ikea. The objective: Buy more plastic buckets for Bjarki’s room, and try and find some furniture for Anna’s room that would increase her display and storage space, and stem the flowRead more

Sport-School

2012-09-22Uncategorized Standard

[Written 14 October 2012] Just thought I’d post a couple of pictures from Bjarki’s ‘Sport-School‘. He started attending one on the west side of town a few months after we moved to Iceland to help with his (preemie-related?) unsure gross motor skills, and since he’s really enjoyed it, we’ve kept attending ever since. Sadly itRead more

NORDUnet Conference in Norway

2012-09-17Uncategorized Standard

[Written 12 October 2012]

Last year, when I was still in a mood to say ‘yes’ to most everything, I agreed to be on the ‘Program Committee‘ of the 27th NORDUnet Conference, to be held in Oslo on 18-20 September 2012, serving as the ‘Icelandic delegate’. (NORDUnet is: “a joint collaboration by the 5 Nordic National Research and Education Networks in Denmark (Forskningsnettet), Finland (Funet), Iceland (RHnet), Norway (Uninett) and Sweden (SUNET) and operates a world-class Nordic and International network and eInfrastructure service for the Nordic research and educational community.”)

I am of course pretty clueless about both networks and eInfrastructure, but probably know more than the average Joanne, so I figured I’d say yes and see what would happen. Mostly I got to meet interesting and pretty cool people, read over a few abstracts, but most importantly, travel for free twice to Oslo, and once to Copenhagen, neither of which I’d ever visited before!

Anyway, fast forward a year from saying yes, and the conference itself was about to begin. One of my duties as an organizer was to ‘chair’ a couple of sessions (The Data Deluge, and Campus Issues 1) so to Oslo I went. (Being a ‘chair’ means you introduce the next speaker, and then watch the clock and tell them when time is running out. That’s it.)

Monday 17 September 2012

For a span of 24 hours Finnur was in England and I was in Norway, and the kids were in Iceland! Thank goodness for grandparents!! 🙂

Quick Trip to Laugarvatn

2012-09-15Uncategorized Standard

[Written 27. September 2012] On Saturday, 15. September 2012, Finnur took off at dawn with some of his buddies to fly to England to worship their football-gods. The morning went pretty much as planned, I took Bjarki to his sports-school session before lunch while Anna disappeared to visit a friend. After lunch I took theRead more

Busy Bee Day

2012-09-13Uncategorized Standard

[Written 27. September 2012] I’d say that the week starting on 3. September was the the week when I started ‘waking up’ from my pregnancy-induced slumber for ‘realz’. Which means that weeks 6-16 were pretty much a wash. That started an era of doing multiple things per day at home, I even joined a ratherRead more

Cast Replaced With a Splint

2012-09-11Uncategorized Standard

Anna had a cast-removal appointment yesterday morning, but 30 minutes before she was due to arrive, I got a call from school saying she’d just vomited all over the floor. Once I’d brought her home, I called the hospital, and the lady there told us to just come whenever she was well again. Anna spentRead more