Packed Day

Well, today was a packed day!  (On our scale.  I know people that are much busier, and pack more into the day.  And I salute them.  But this was busy for us. 🙂 )

Finnur took the (rather disastrous) night shift, so I took Emma with me and the kids to their school for the annual ‘what will we be doing this year’-day.  It was only Anna’s class, Bjarki’s will be later.  (6 images total)

The kids in Anna’s class and her teacher at the start of the day. There are three 5th grades now (not two), and her class has 20 students.

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Got to Start Them Young

My radar folders from when I was preparing for my radar lecture are still floating around, and Emma took an interest in one of them today. What can I say?  Better start them young, right? 🙂Read more

Autumn is Here

We’ve had a windy couple of days, and the temps are dropping.  Must mean it’s autumn!  So I grabbed my camera to catch some autumn leaves before the wind blew them away! (4 images)

The plants in our backyard don’t quite agree on the color-changing schedule.

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RSS Acting Weird?

So, I know there are one or two people who use our RSS-feed to view this site in an RSS reader. I noticed yesterday that even though I posted three posts, one current and two (1, 2) backdated to the beginning of August, only the current one showed up on my RSS reader.  Is anybody seeingRead more

Passport Time

We took Emma to the magistrate’s (sheriff’s?) office today to order a passport for her.  Thankfully, they take their own photos at the office, and Emma cooperated nicely: This has been a fairly uneventful week, except Emma’s slowly driving me insane with her night-time antics. It got so bad that Finnur worked from home onRead more

Driving Day

Lots of driving today.  To and from the mommy gym.  To and from Elsa for lunch and chat.  Picking Bjarki up from aftercare, dropping Anna off at team handball practice, dropping Bjarki off at gymnastics practice, back home.  To and from picking Bjarki back up (Anna got a ride back). And since the car hadRead more

Mommy Gym and Bjarki’s Haircut

A fairly busy day is drawing to a close.  First off: Mommy Gym class (week three).

Emma got to try out this cool walker at the gym, and she was very happy in it. This was taken at the end of the class, which was held in the TRX room. Fun for the whole family… if you’re into that kind of stuff.

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Soccer Mom

[Written 27 August 2013]

We’re trying to sort out what after-school activities Anna and Bjarki’ll be doing this winter.  Bjarki’s been signed up for gymnastics again (good overall gross motor skill training, last year he learnt to do a headstand against a wall, and to jump on one foot) but we’re thinking of delaying any swimming until he’s more settled into school.  So far no musical stuff for him, school for realz and gymnastics twice a week is plenty for now.

Anna meanwhile is contemplating swimming and team handball except the schedules for those two clash somewhat, so we’re not sure what will happen.  Oh, and I think she’ll do at least one more year of piano…  she’s getting a new teacher, so we’ll have to see how that goes.

Anyway, as a result of Bjarki going to gymnastics, and Anna testing out a team handball practice in the total opposite direction, I felt like a true Soccer Mom, basically shuttling kids to and fro for over two hours.  I did fit in a grocery run, so it wasn’t a total wash, but I think we’ll have to try and bring public transport into the mix in the future.

The boys born in 2007 starting their warm up in the busy hall.

Gymnastics practice at Gerpla has resumed. As always, it’s CRAZY BUSY and the hallways are so jammed with people dropping off and picking up kids that it’s a wonder no one’s gotten hurt yet.

Bigger version of the animated GIF above below the fold!

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Small Website Update

Now when you click the “Lesa framhaldið / Read the rest of this entry” link below the first part of a blog entry, the rest of that blog entry will magically appear right below the link.  It will no longer take you to a new page.  Click it again, and the extra stuff goes away.Read more

Teeth!

On 8 August, four days short of being 6 months old, Emma Ósk got her first tooth, the lower right front one.  Coincidentally, it was the same day I finally made the trek to the National Registry with a signed piece of paper officially giving her her name. It took ten days for the next toothRead more