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.
[Written 13 November 2013]
We were both lucky and unlucky with the weather while in England. On one hand it was really warm, but on the other it was quite wet. So we stayed indoors quite a bit, but that was nice too. Because relaxing is nice. 🙂
We did go outside a bit though, mostly to the nearby park. (4 images total)
Walking towards the play area in the late afternoon on a Sunday.
[Written 13 November 2013] A few weeks back I noticed that the kids would have a ‘winter break’. Sure it was only Monday and Tuesday off, but it sparked an idea… which grew, and ended up in us buying tickets to visit dad in England for 10 days. Dad met us at the airport withRead more
I took Emma to the health clinic for yet another well baby check-up and one immunization shot. She showed off her military style forward crawl, but refused to go up on her knees and do that rocking thing.
As usual the nurse proclaimed her in excellent shape and we’re to return in 2 months. For that visit Emma’s supposed to have mastered clapping, waving, and the pincer grasp.
Growth charts follow: (4 images total)
Emma keeps on chugging along her weight-vs-length line, although the points are getting a wee bit wobblier against the line.
There was some sort of origami dog team competition in Anna’s class. It had something to do with making lots of dogs out of two sheets of paper to get points, but you had to make many sizes of dogs because each size prompted a new point-level.
The rules were pretty confusing, but Anna attacked the problem with gusto and I was really tired, so I didn’t dig too deep. (3 images total)
Here are Anna’s dogs.