Easter Day

[Written 08 April 2013]

This year the wait for Easter was almost as difficult for the kids as the wait for Christmas, because they knew they would each be getting two large Easter chocolate eggs on Easter day, courtesy of my parents.  Just to be on the safe side, we therefore told them the night before that there would be no eating of Easter chocolate eggs until after 8 am (no waking up at 6 am to eat chocolate!).  They seemed to get the message because they woke up at the same time as usual, and Finnur took them down to have breakfast, and then hunt for the eggs.

Emma in her lounger on Easter morning.

Looking for eggs.

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Emma Ósk Finnsdóttir

Yup,  Ms. Bambino has a name: Emma Ósk Finnsdóttir.  🙂 There’s not a whole lot of meaning to the names. Emma is originally a shortening of a of German names that began with Erm-, Ermen- (such as Ermtraud, Ermgard, Ermenhild). The first shortening was probably Erma, related to the sound sheep make (?!?). Emma isRead more

Wrap-ified

Imported ‘specialty-stuff’ tends to be considerably more expensive in Iceland than in the UK and US, so I got my dad to bring over a few things from the UK to save us a little bit of money.  One of them was a proper ‘Moby Wrap‘ (burðarsjal) which is basically just a really long pieceRead more

Purple-Shirted Girls

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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