Anna got a nasty stomach bug on Thursday (Bjarki had gotten it on Monday). We therefore didn’t do much for a couple of days but on the Saturday we went to my mom’s (who’d already gotten it).
While we were there, my brother Pétur (i.e. Peter) was heading to band-practice so I decided to drive him and take the kids to explore the sea-side (aka waiting out the World Cup).
Earlier today, Bjarki came running into the living room, semi-jumped up onto a soft footstool that had been pushed against the coffee table, and banged his forehead on the sharp edge of the table. Much crying ensued, but thankfully the skin didn’t really crack open so we didn’t have to go to the ER for stitches. Instead he’s now sporting a huge bump on his forehead.
The photo-smile. 🙂
I (Finnur) went to the Icelandic equivalent of the US department of motor vehicles (DMV) to get a new driver’s licence issued. My old one is probably somewhere in our container heading to Iceland, but I never got the international credit-card style licence (like Hrefna did before we left) so it was time to get aRead more
It was three years ago today that Bjarki and Reynir were born. How time flies! We didn’t do anything particular to mark the day (planning a proper party soon), but Nökkvi, Jóhanna and Ylfa gave Bjarki a fantastic drum that him and Anna banged on for the next few hours. We spent most of the day at my aunt Hulda’s (where Nökkvi and Jóhanna also live), because she has two kids and therefore LOTS OF TOYS!
It has to be said that it’s been a big relief how independent Anna is in her play with others in Iceland. We’ve hardly seen her for the past few days, which is a good thing after we all got a little too close in New York. Sometimes personal space is a good thing. 🙂
(Also, this post has a lot of vertical images. Try pressing F11 on your keyboard to get “full-screen mode” and then press F11 again to go back to “normal screen mode”.)
The Birthday Boy himself having a fantastic time on the tire swing of a near-by school with my brother Pétur pushing him.
We were invited to not one party, but two on Saturday!! The first one was a 9 year-old birthday party for one of my nephews, and the second party was a rather hurriedly organized hello-goodbye/birthday party!
Eyþór, the Birthday Boy, in the center, circling the mouthwatering feast on the table.
We were rather tired after the trip to New York, so we didn’t take a whole lot of pictures the first couple of days in Iceland. Here is a sample of the few we took.
Thursday, June 25th, 2010.
Inga, one of Finnur's sisters, stopped by to say hi and let us greet the rather new Edda. She whipped up some waffles while she was here! The fourth person at the table is Anna, their (grand)mom.
I’ve belatedly added pictures from our last day in New York. Scroll down to June 22nd, or click this link!Read more
Just so that we’re all on the same page… We landed on Wednesday evening as planned. The trip was uneventful, and I will forever be grateful for Icelandair and their individualized tv-programming. We squeezed a full 2 hours out of the children’s programming for Bjarki, he then had a rather wild/squirmy hour before falling asleepRead more
Here’s another blog-format conundrum, now that we’ve combined the ‘text-blog’ and the ‘photo-blog’ into one. What to do when I want to post pictures about an event that happened before the newest blog post?!? Say for example “New York, Day Seven” which happened before Finnur’s $99.99. Do I backdate the New York entry, so thatRead more
One of the tasks before leaving the States was to take all the coins Hrefna and I had accumulated around the house and convert them to bills so we could use it up during our last days in the country. If I had been in Iceland, I would have handed a bag of coins toRead more