þriðjudagur, september 23, 2008
Here is the first weekly post (which Iwill try my best to keep up) that has been requested, for our many friends and family scattered all over the world
(really, it is amazing how widespread we are!).
Many new pictures where, among other moments
, you can see our two future pianists making their debut at the instrument, Eyrún busy at her artwork (she decorates the whole stétt, drawing circle after circle after circle), the two of them reading (fomenting their academic careers already! in the picture where Eyrún balances herself on top of Eldar´s head, she is actually reading at the same time, thought it was lots of fun to sit with him for a while, but the book was more interesting),and many fun moments of everday life.
Eldar is learning how to sit, his next big milestone, and Eyrún runs, hops and skips all over the place, singing songs and making up stories all day long, in her Spanish, Icelandic language blend. It is truly fascinating to listen to her, especially when she conjugates her Icelandic verbs using the Spanish system. What a brain!!
Stay tuned for next week´s post...
mánudagur, september 15, 2008
Here´s a total mix of pictures, just decided to make a big photo feast, let the images
tell their own story. A couple more pictures from Iceland this summer, and the rest are recent pictures from here at home. You can see the two of them together in Eyrún´s bed (which she is very happy with!) and Eldar all wrapped up in her sæng on another one. Eyrún wraps him up and he laughs and laughs, it´s hilarious (hilarious of course with Amma´s pronunciation).
Eyrún lets Eldar try her
Since Eldar has become more aware of the world Eyrún is much more at ease in his company, mostly because he just adores her. He laughs at everything that she does, especially when he sees her walking down the stairs in the mornings and when he watches her hopping around, making Eyrún feel great.
She´s started her new leikskóli (Waldorf education) and is happy as a clam, all weekend she wanted to go and when I picked her up this morning, on our way home in the car she wanted to go back. I take this as a good sign. She´s growing up so fast. It´s funny though, now I can´t really remember her before she talked, walked, hopped and pranced around singing all day long. It´s amazing how time flies.
mánudagur, september 08, 2008
I think that it´s finally time for a long overdue blog entry, don´t you? I´ve been meaning to at least get in new pictures since mamma´s last blog, but our days are long and intense and I finish up utterly stripped of energy and feel I can do nothing but flop into bed and see how long my children will let me sleep. Eyrún doesn´t sleep at all during the day and Eldar sleeps very little, and they both get up between 7 and 8, Eldar often at 6, and they are both in bed between 7 and 8 in the evening. Eldar sleeps very well during the night, doesn´t wake up at all anymore, but Eyrún wakes up and average of 3 to 4 times a night, dreaming, having nightmares and needing water because of the heat.
We went to feed the ducks, took Eyrún to Húsdýragarðurinn, and even went out to Slakki with Lísa and her family. On that same trip we went to see Geysir, which Eyrún was not to thrilled with, because it made a lot of noise, and we stopped to see Kerið on the way back. Manu had only seen it once before, and that was during the winter when it was 14 degrees below zero, so it was a whole new experience for him.
BUT, I´m getting ahead of myself, we are missing a big chapter in this family´
s blog story, which is our trip this summer to Iceland. We spent a great two and a half weeks there in very good weather and very good company. Of course getting there was an adventure all on its own, driving down to Alicante (Eyrún watching the huge windmills "dance and sing" the whole drive down, according to her) and flying from there to Keflavík. But we had a great time, we didn´t do much more than hang out, with the occasional water fight, as seen above, Manu´s idea I think. My participation in it was not voluntary, but once sprayed, I had to counterattack :)
s blog story, which is our trip this summer to Iceland. We spent a great two and a half weeks there in very good weather and very good company. Of course getting there was an adventure all on its own, driving down to Alicante (Eyrún watching the huge windmills "dance and sing" the whole drive down, according to her) and flying from there to Keflavík. But we had a great time, we didn´t do much more than hang out, with the occasional water fight, as seen above, Manu´s idea I think. My participation in it was not voluntary, but once sprayed, I had to counterattack :)It is pretty complicated to travel with little ones, let alone with one so tiny, but we did get out of the house once in a while. We took Eyrún to our famous artificial beach while Eldar stayed at home with amma and afi.
We went to feed the ducks, took Eyrún to Húsdýragarðurinn, and even went out to Slakki with Lísa and her family. On that same trip we went to see Geysir, which Eyrún was not to thrilled with, because it made a lot of noise, and we stopped to see Kerið on the way back. Manu had only seen it once before, and that was during the winter when it was 14 degrees below zero, so it was a whole new experience for him.
It was great fun, but as always bittersweet, for who likes continuous farewells? It turned out to be a very short two and a half weeks, and afterwards amma and afi´s house was very quiet, what with two of them now, all our lives turn around them (does that expression sound right in English, not sure, too many languages to think in).
So here we are back in Spain, Eyrún about to start leikskóli again, sleeping in a new bed, and both of them getting oh so big and changing every day, I´ll just have to post more pics in no time to keep up with them.
So until then...
