UK Granddad and New Numbers – Six Weeks
Today Ms. Bambino is Six Weeks Old! We therefore took her to the health center for a check-up and got new size numbers. She’s now 5.8 kg and 58 cm long (up from 5.1 kg and 56 cm two weeks ago). Yes, I apparently only produce cream, because she’s still gaining an unusual amount ofRead more
The Days Go By
I’m not taking a whole lot of pictures, but I try to grab the camera at least every other day. Here are a few shots from days past.Read more
Growth Spurt Day
Interestingly, this little chickling here… … has basically slept through the day. Yes, it’s now almost 3 pm (and she just woke up), and she drank around 8 am, and again around 11 am, but she’s otherwise been asleep. So I’m just going to go ahead and assume today is the “Six Week Growth Spurt”,Read more
Finnur’s 15 Minutes of Fame
Finnur’s name has been in the tech-news today after his Chrome RSS Extension was removed and then reinstated, see this CNET item, TechCrunch link, and PC World write-up. UPDATE: Added WebProNews who post Finnur’s reply to the extension’s disappearance.Read more
Hanging Out
We all survived the first week of Finnur being back at work. Admittedly, he came home early on Monday and Thursday because we had to get the wee one weighed at the health center, and then there was a parent-teacher meeting at Anna’s school. So it wasn’t a ‘full’ solo week, but it was prettyRead more
New Numbers – Four Weeks Old
Ok, so she’s four weeks old tomorrow, but we took her to the health clinic today for a check-up, so we have new numbers. I’m apparently still just producing cream because she weighed in at 5090 g (11 lbs 4 oz), up from 4580 g (10 lbs 2 oz) a week ago, which is apparently anRead more
Quiet Weekend
This was the last weekend before Finnur would return to work. Yup, we splurged on a four-week long paternity leave for him! Originally it was only supposed to be three weeks, but we were both exhausted at the beginning of last week, I was barely walking, and the kids were about to have a mid-weekRead more
Women’s Day at Daycare
Once a year the daycare invites ‘women’ (mothers, sisters, grandmothers…) to join their kids at school for an hour to enjoy some snacks, view projects, and have a sing-a-long. They also do a separate day for the men. I left Ms. Bambino awake with Finnur (which is always a slightly scary thing, he has noRead more
Blizzard!
This has been a very snow-light winter, at least on our corner of Iceland. So ‘winter’ apparently decided it needed to go out with a bang, and we had one-day-long snow-blizzard, which caused massive traffic problems and other snow-and-wind related incidences.
The big adventure of the day was Finnur taking Bjarki to the dentist early in the morning, not realizing just how crappy the driving conditions were. They made it to the dentist (only getting stuck once), but on the way back they ran into a right turn lane that was blocked with cars, so they had to keep going straight. They ended up spending about an hour or two at a gas station (thankfully with a Subway) while the traffic eased up a bit, and then got super lucky and made it home in one piece around lunchtime.
Lots of pictures from the day below.
The view out of our bedroom window that morning. The windows themselves looked like somebody had sprayed shaving foam on them…
As luck would have it, both Anna’s school and Bjarki’s daycare were having ‘staff days’ so they were both home. Anna used the opportunity and went out to play with the boys from next door. This is them coming in for a bit.