The Baby Club

Due to the large number of expats living in Vienna, there is luckily also a big and very active association connecting new international mothers: Vienna Babies Club. I joined the club early spring, and have been meeting other women, who were due around the same time as myself, once a week at different restaurants and cafes in Vienna (- and did people stare by the way, when 8-15 very pregnant ladies were sitting together at one table with huge bellies...).

Now that all the babies are here the weekly meetings continues, but instead of dinner we meet for coffee or lunch, movies or other fun stuff that is doable with a lot of strollers and a lot of babies.

A few weeks back we went to a paint-your-own ceramics store and had the tiny baby feet printed on coffee mugs. There's a Halloween party coming up, and I'm trying to figure out what heck a 3 month old can be dressed up as?! Any good ideas?

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Tichy Eis

We met up with LA-Alex for ice cream this past Sunday at the old but very popular Tichy Eiscafe. While the two computational biologists were busy talking (... geek alert!) and Silja was sleeping, I was playing around with the camera. Most ice cream places will soon be closing due to the change of season, which is a little bit sad. We need to go for one huge ice cream before it's over!

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Grey Eyes

- that might turn brown at some point?

Baby Update

(as per request...)

We just got back from the pediatrician. Silja is now 4,7 kg (3,13 at birth) and 55 cm (48 at birth), so she is growing rapidly. We got a prescription for something to relieve the pain connected to her gassy stomach, so hopefully that will do good. The stomach aches are not a huge problem, but results in occasional screaming and discomfort. She is still a decent sleeper, and taking her along to restaurant- and museum visits has been completely doable. For the past two weeks or so she has been smiling consciously, which by the way is going straight to the happy hearts of her proud parents. She loves to hang out in an arm, but is also getting pretty good at laying on a blanket entertaining herself by poking at some of her toys. The pink elephant is by far the favorite.

Bjarni and myself? Slightly sleep deprived obviously, but otherwise fine. Bjarni has made himself an extra bed out in the hallway, which he sometimes (read: often) turns to in the middle of the night :) Myself am daily surprised by how fast the days go by at the moment. I still have a paper to submit to the university before the end of the month, but have no time (nor interest...) to look into that at the moment. Maybe I should cut back on this addictive TV series, which both Bjarni and I have been watching obsessively, whenever we have had a spare moment together since the arrival of Silja.

That is status at the moment in our little family of three.

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Cafe Korb

We stopped by Cafe Korb for a coffee Sunday afternoon, realizing later there is a vintage-style gentleman's bowling alley in the basement. I guess that means a revisit.

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Silja's Corner(s)

It seems like I'm way behind with blogging considering all the new things that are happening after Silja arrived, but geez... there is so much to do these days. I hope to give a more thorough update on how it's all going, but for now I'll just show how parts of the apartment looks like now that we are three. There is no space for a nursery in this apartment, so Silja has her own little corner in the bedroom. It's not completely done yet, but is working well for now.

Some of our German friends, who visited last week, commented that our apartment looks very Danish given all the whiteness... Ah yes, but I can't help it and I am Danish after all. The poster (which is hard to see on the picture) is by the Swedish illustrator Camilla Lundsten and my favorite among all the kid stuff that are now part of our home.

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