Emma continued being a sick little chickling for a second day. She had a non-productive cough and intermittent high fever (when the fever-reducers ran out). (Thankfully, the fever went down the next day, although a lingering cough remains.)Read more
Emma woke up with a high fever this morning and stayed pretty comatose throughout the day. I took her to the doctor in the afternoon because she’d had a cold for a while before this, and sure enough she has a nasty ear infection, but also a nasty viral cough. The doctor decided to giveRead more
Emma and I have made a temporary truce in the nighttime. She gets yanked onto the big bed at her first complaint, drinks every now and then, and I’m too tired to really notice. (She was probably on a two-hour schedule last night. Who knows. Oh, and on the too-much-information front-especially-if-you’re-male: we’ve worked out aRead more
Emma did her darnedest to finish us parents off last night. If memory serves the timeline looked something like this: 23:00 – Emma gets her ‘midnight’ drink ostensibly “for the night” 00:00 – Parents asleep. 01:30 – Emma wakes up crying and standing in her crib. Mother too tired to do more than yank herRead more
Emma and I went shopping for timber today so we can install safety gates on the stairs. The plank we got was 2.55 meters long, so I got to handsaw it into three pieces so that it would fit into the car. The guy who brought the plank graciously steadied the 4.5cm x 9.5 cmRead more
Emma’s fully on board the train to walking now. She’s become a pretty speedy crawler, has been practicing straightening her feet with her hands still on the ground, and now she’s started pulling herself up to stand. Getting down again is a somewhat unsolved problems still though! In other news, Finnur just returned from aRead more
We failed at pumpkin carving this year (the only ones that Finnur found were tiny and/or flat-ish), but some of Anna’s friends hosted a Halloween party so not all was lost.Read more
Not much to say that an animated gif doesn’t say better:Read more
[Written 13 November 2013. There are always a post or two from trips that are so big that I refrain from writing them. This is one of them.]
Anna injured her heel in the beginning of October, and the big carrot I dangled in front of her to keep her off her feet so she’d get better, was promising her a trip to the zoo (which she’d need to be able to walk around).
So, around 10 am on a Wednesday morning, two hours after Finnur had already left for work, dad drove the rest of us to the train station in two trips, to board a train to London. (60 images total.)
At the train station, waiting for the train to London Victoria which was a little late.
[Written 13 November 2013]
Finnur didn’t actually take any time off for our little trip. Instead, he boarded a train every workday morning, rode an hour to London, and worked out of one of the Google offices in London.
Meanwhile, the rest of us did various things, such as visiting the local ice skating rink (9 images total, only 2 from ice rink).
Siblings on skates. Anna did really well, and zoomed right off, while Bjarki was unhappy until we rented him a guide-penguin. Then he got a lot happier.