American Mom in Finland

One month! It's hard to believe we've only been here a month. With everything that's been going on, it feels a lot longer. A bit of delay posting due to illness. Soren and Aaron both caught a cold for about a week. Somehow, I never caught it, by some miracle! Soren got his first baby ear infection, and had a lot of congestion, but he healed up fast enough and never developed a fever so we're counting ourselves lucky. Proof that he's feeling better now! It's also cooled off massively, which feels wonderful. Here on the waterfront, temperatures stay between 60 and 75, a perfect temperature for long walks around the islands. (view of our apartment from the neighboring island) For the most part, we are settled in to our new apartment. We're still missing some big items that will be arriving shortly (coffee table, lamps) but we have a routine to our days, as much as you can with a baby. Our bedroom was a priority, for obvious reasons. Living out of a...

Hi friends! I meant to post earlier, but I keep postponing - part of me thinks that if I just finish this one thing  the house will be presentable, but I think it will be a few weeks before the house feels photo worthy. We have most of our Ikea furniture built, but we only just got all of our clothes out of boxes. We aren't quite settled in yet. Our new house is on the waterfront in Kalasatama. Kala, meaning fish, and Satama, meaning harbor. The area is very new. It used to be an industrial port district, but the boats have been shifted to another area and pedestrian bridges have been built, and the area is under an impressive amount of construction building new apartments and stores and a giant mall. The best part for us is that the new mall, which opens on Aaron's birthday (soon!), houses a metro station. That means we have a direct connection to the metro within a 5 minute walk, which is the best way to get pretty much anywhere in the city. Metro trains run as freque...