Samstag, 21. Juli 2007

Desperate Houswives

Mist, ich habe mindestens die letzten vier Folgen von Desperate Housewives verpasst! Hier läuft gerade die dritte Staffel und ich habe noch gesehen, wie der älteste Junge von Lynette den Männerkopf in der Gefriertruhe von Mrs McClusky gefunden hat... Und dann hab ich immer die Sendezeit verpasst, weil gerade dann hier so viel los war.
Hat jemand eine Ahnung, wo und wie ich Folgen übers Internet ansehen und downloaden kann?

Special day ...

Yesterday Júlíana reacht a new step in her development: She is able to move herself around by using her feet and arms!
Now the stressless times are over when I could go around, fetching water and nappies and leave her unsupervised in our bed... She is so strong, it's unbelievable. That's my girl!

Verónika made a new friend the other day: A neighbor's boy at her age is living down the street. After I met his mom, talking to her for a while, Garpur (the boy's name) wanted to show me his toys and dragged me through all their flat.
When I came home and announced to Verónika, that there's living a boy down the street with a lot of Lego toys, she directly went to them and stayed for playing with him.
She is so easy going, she just goes and asks kids, plays with them and easily makes friends!
Jóhanna was jealous about her playing with someone else, so she told Garpur's mom Verónika could only stay to five (that were 15 mins.), and told us that Garpur's mom said she had to leave at five! Later when Garpur came to us I talked to his mom and we found out that Jóhanna lied to us all.
I told her that Verónika needs to makes friends of her own and doesn't always like to stay at home and play with Jóhanna!

Dienstag, 17. Juli 2007

3 Months Baby Check-Up

Today was Júlíana's three months check-up at the local policlinic. In fact she is 3 months and two weeks old...
A nurse is weighting and lenght measuring her and transfers the numbers into a growing chart. Júlíana also got her first shots!


Here she lies on the scale (6,440 kg)...


...and on the lenght-measuring table (65 cm - tall girl!).


Hat-size is is 41,5 cm now.

Montag, 16. Juli 2007

Housewife vs. Family Manager

As we are five now and cloth diapering, there's always a lot of laundry to do. By working on these kind of brainless tasks one has the possibility to let one's thoughts wander.
Today it occured to me in the wash-room, that the job of a housewife is completely underestimated. During the last weeks of staying at home with the kids (Siggi and the older girls are on holidays from school), I tried to take my housewife chores seriously; not only cooking, washing, shopping and organizing as usual, but also cleaning (I hate most).
Somehow women have that multitasking-ability men don't, that's why we can listen to the radio, hug the baby on one arm, cook with the other hand and remember to book a doctor's appointment for another kid at the same time. Jóhanna has to take in medicine now; Siggi doesn't even remember to give her a pill at dinner-time!
It seems to me, that as a dedicated mother, you function as a collection of several more or less well-paid professions in one person: You are teacher, nurse, psychologist, cook, chauffeur, secretary, cleaning lady, (home-)designer, tailor and entertainer! And I bet, you are the only person in your household who knows exactly, who has to be where at which time for how long...
And that without any payment!
That's why I thought about calling my current profession "family manager", sounds better, includes dignity and describes this demanding and stressful job much better than that humiliating title "housewife". (Sounds as if you never leave your home and are completely clueless about anything else except housework!)
And I claim a decent salary: I suggest 200.000 ISK* per month - after tax!


*appr. 2400 € / 3300 US$

Júlíana 0 - 3 months

Take a look at some portraits in this new album:

Júlíana 0-3 months

Sonntag, 15. Juli 2007

Elena Spielverderber!

Gestern Nacht haben irgendwelche Asis eine megalaute Gartenparty gefeiert. Das bierseelige Gegröle samt Techno-Gewummer blökte durch den Garten zu uns herüber und je später der Abend, desdo lauter wurden Musi und Gäste.
Nachts um Eins hätte ich dann mal gerne geschlafen, aber daran war nicht zu denken. Selbst bei geschlossenem Fenster habe ich alles gehört, als hätte ich ein Radio neben mir voll aufgedreht. Nicht, dass ich was gegen Gartenpartys hätte, aber ich bin der Meinung, dass man ab einer bestimmten Uhrzeit schon Rücksicht auf seine Nachbarn nehmen sollte...
Um dem Spuk ein Ende zu bereiten, habe ich zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben bei der Polizei hier angerufen und mich über Lärmbelästigung beschwert. Der Cop meinte, sie würden mal sehen, was sich da tun ließe. Eine halbe Stunde später war Ruhe, ich lag schadenfroh im Bett und konnte endlich einschlafen... hehehe
Jetzt bin ich wahrscheinlich zur spießigen Nachbarin mutiert.

Video testing

I hope this works... Would be fun to send video-clips!

Well, it did not work and I removed the foto. Sorry, have to find out sth else.
Go to sleep now.

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