Brazilian Generosity

South west of Vienna, far far away in the tropics of Brazil has a sweet old grandmother made four pairs of soft knitted baby shoes for Silja. I got them earlier this week, when I met with my dear friend Priscilla for lunch. She went back home to do fieldwork in Brazilian prisons over the summer (yeah, forget about my coffee dates with skilled migrants in Vienna...) and the grandmother gave her a bag with more shoes for the friend in Austria, who had a baby. She also provided two pairs when Silja was newborn. Oh well, now they don't fit. In fact we need to go and buy new shoes, because those feet are growing so fast, but we'll save these little ones well, and hopefully the hand-knitted goods from a Brazilian grandmother will eventually fit someone else's tiny feet.

Have a happy weekend!

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Ozean

We finally made it to the Ozean exhibition at the kid's musuem at MQ. Next time we'll drag Bjarni along. I think he will like it too.

Ice Skating with Penguins

These penguin ice-skating aids are just the cutest. From Wiener Eistraum in front of Rathaus.

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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