What`s Been Going On

Hello Dear Everyone,
I made a promise in my first note that I`ll let Mom do the best job she can writing about me...well, I`ll have to work on that still.
We went to the doctor on Monday. And they told my parents that they have a tiny little girl. I weigh 15 lb 13 oz, 9% of kids in my age! But: I rock in the 70% of kids with my 27.8 inches in length. They also checked how big my head is: 17.2 inches and that puts me in 48% of the rest out there. Only to freak Mommy out even more, I stopped eating on Tuesday. Nothing for me, thank you. Last night she even tried giving me real bread and strawberry cream cheese, but no luck. The only thing I kinda ate was drinking yogurt, but today not even that. This morning I had some formula-oatmeal-pear combination, but only 2 spoons and only because I could tell that Mom was getting sad...

Otherwise I`m doing great. I wish I could hang out outside more, but this weather will end soon, because this is what makes my hometown ugly :-(

By the way, I think I`m only testing the power of my say by refusing to eat and turning my head away. I like when others (Mom) has to accept what I want. Or in this case, don`t want.

First Pair Of Jeans

I think I couldn`t be any trendier. I got my first pair of jeans - actually two pairs, because the selection of baby jeans was just too cute Mom and Dad thought. So here I am, wearing them on my date with Apa today. We went to Curtis`s game again and then had dinner with the family. Mom needed to have some fun for herself in the meantime. I think I wore Dad out, he was pretty much in full charge of me this afternoon. And I`m handful, even when I`m being in my best behavior. I can`t help when situations like no changing station at the men`s bathroom emerge, that needs to be figured out immediately. :-) I can only provide the soundtrack of top of my head scream to that scene.
Oh well, it`s just one of many things that need to be figured out right at the second. :-) Have I mentioned that I can not wait?

Cinderella cup is not the popular one anymore. Now we`re back to the Magic Cup, until the silicone sippy top lasts.

Going On Adventures

This is me, getting home after my latest adventure with Dad. :-) Yesterday he took me to see uncle Curtis's game at Breck School and today we went to see the sharks at the aquarium. I looove going out, pretty much anywhere. I also like going to Lunds. Or Rainbow, the noisier the better.

Mommy decided that she beats the cold and gets me out on the fresh air. We went over to say hi to Maga and Papa, I haven`t seen them since winter really kicked in. Their house is a huge playground now that I can do soo much more than last time I was there. I started with great grandma`s bookshelf at the dining room...I think I left a little mess along with teeth marks both in their fingers.

My favorite thing is being naked these days. Tonight, I escaped from Mom - as soon as she put me on the bed in my towel, I took off. I crawl so fast that she literally has to chase me around and I like that part too. It`s my funny time. Then I went to look for my butt cream tube, I know she always has it out after bath time. I`m telling you, she`s hiding it at the weirdest places, but I eventually find it and I don`t let it go until I get very tired. I have this thing for that Desitin tube.

I`m a lot of trouble. I can babble and coo pretty cute, but roaring with my cheeks wide and eyes huge is the best I`ve figured out so far.

Yesterday and today I was standing ALONE for a few seconds!!!! Here I come...! :-)

3rd Tooth

It really hurts when your teeth appear out of your gum. And it wakes me screaming in the middle of the night and also keeps me unhappy and cranky most of the day. Good thing is my appetite is somewhat back, after I lived on Gerber yogurt drink for two days as far as solids are concerned. I think that was my whole point, that it wasn`t solid. Anyway, I ate chicken and veggies today.

Mom and I took time off tonight from serious mothering and being a baby. We took a bubble bath together and we both tried to relax. I just got a little bored in the hot water when she turned me and showed me the most exciting thing ever: water running from the faucet. I couldn`t figure out that bar of water, kept trying to grab it, then I kicked it and splashed and it kept coming back in the same form, it was a special thing, kept me busy for a while. :-)

"No"/"Nem"

Mommy teaches me the word "No" or "Nem" in Hungarian. I think I know what she means when she yells that, but that doesn`t always mean that I want to obey. Mostly I just stop what I`m doing for a second and when she finished her line I keep going. The she says that again and I stop and look at her and smile sometimes. Then she smiles too and then it`s not that serious business anymore that I obey. Then I think she tries to not smile, but then it`s too late, I already saw that she likes me - then what`s wrong with doing what I want??
I know there are places I can`t go to, but I like them even more for that.
I "talk" a lot nowadays. Mom thinks that my babble means something, I can be that convincing sometimes. She also swears that I can say "Emmmma" and "Mammmmma". But mostly I roar when I really want or like something. I also bite when I`m really angry or excited. And I can drink from a big cup!! I have 3 of them, they`re pink and there`s cinderella on them. This is the only kind I know how to use for sure and the drink actually comes from it.
Did you know that yogurt drinks are yummy?
Wondering why my nose is not clean on this picture? That`s because I ate spinach, well, actually I was stuffed with it. :-)

Feeling Good

My cold is finally coming to an end! Good, because that blue bulb Mommy uses to clean up my nose, well, that`s not fun. She holds me too tight when she does that and I scream. I also cried when I couldn`t breathe from all that stuff in my throat. The especially hard nights Mom put me down to sleep in my bouncy chair, so that I could breathe more easily and with all those night time wakings, she could rock me straight back to sleep in the chair. Too bad I can`t nap there anymore.

I am not hungry these days. Mom keeps stuffing me and I eat meat but only if I really have to. Like I said, not hungry. I rather want to climb to places and explore. The area of the computer and the tv are the best, then shoes and bathroom floor. These are the biggest no-nos. But that also means that she comes and gets me when I approach them - that`s a good trick.

I have some hair on my head! Mom combs it in the bath, that`s funny, feels good.

This cold outside is boring. I need a good walk and fresh air!! Mommy`s thinking about running off to a beach :-).

HAPPY 29TH BIRTHDAY, DADDY!

First Cold

Hello!
I`m sick for the first time :-(
My nose is running and I hate when Mom tries to wipe it, my eyes are tearing and I`m not sure about how to breathe when I sleep. Mom was worried and took me to see a doctor yesterday for my cold and cough. The doctor said I was fine and the cold has to end on its own, no medication for me. Mom`s been watching my temperature since then, if that turned into a fever, I`d have to go in to that big place again.

The past few days I was up in Duluth to see grampa`s family. The snow is pretty there and the lake is huge!! It`s too bad I wasn`t exactly the happiest company with this cold thing that started over the weekend.

Mom`s a little busy these days I think. And I cry a lot, I hate to feel sick.

I`m Busy

I`ve mastered cruising along furniture well enough to get to Mom wherever she is, as long as there is no barricade blocking my way. I love it. My legs don`t always keep up with my speed though, but wearing no pants and slip proof socks help. They`re pretty useful especially when I`m climbing on my plastic play house, the door of which is locked, because Mom saw me escaping through it too many times. Oh well, just the beginning of many more to come. :-)

The spots on my belly and back I showed you yesterday are still there, but I only ate "safe" foods today. I don`t like tomato. But applesauce is good, especially the dutch apple. Mom`s feeding habit is tricky. First she makes sure I eat as much as she can stuff in me with a spoon, then when I say no to spoon, then she starts dipping Cheerios or corn puffs into the meal and gives that to me with her fingers. And I always fall for it, it looks like some more interesting table food. Once in my mouth, I guess I don`t spit it out, chewing is fun after all.

Aunt Anna Is A Hero!

This is my pretty auntie, Anna and she did something amazing today. She was the only witness to a stabbing while she was waiting for her bus in Budapest and she provided first aid for the injured; she tied the wound with the boy`s belt while waiting for the ambulance and police. She`s amazingly strong and smart. I want to become like her when I grow up. Mom and I are so very proud of her!

ANNA, WE LOVE YOU! :-)

Yogurt, Spots On The Belly And Such Things

It`s been a funny few days. See my belly? Mommy gave me a bunch of new foods yesterday and I developed an allergic skin reaction to something. :-( It doesn`t look too pretty, tiny pinkish spots all over my belly and back. Mommy took tons of pictures of it and sent them over to Grampa to take a look. Wow, technology and medicine!

Last night Evi was watching me while Mom and Dad left. They came back pretty fast though and told me they went just nearby to meditate. Whatever it is, I didn`t mind too much, I like Evi a lot and I think she loves babies; I can tell from the way she plays with me.

Another remarkable thing happened in baby world: I figured out the light switch on my play house. It took me a good hour or so, just to try and see what happens, but in the end I did it. It helped a lot during the process that every time I did it right, the light came up and pretty music sounded. I think in the end, I did it just to hear the music and dance with my wrists (I do that lately, when I hear nice music, I raise my arms and wiggle my wrists in the air, Mom thinks it`s very funny).

I Want My Mommy

Today? A terrible day if you`re asking me. First of all, Mommy was nervous about something, I could sense it in the air. She was looking at a book all morning and she`s been doing that for a while now. I hate that book so much I even tried to eat it a few times to make it disappear. So she was weird all morning, she even made my breakfast cereal so thick I could barely eat it, lucky she mixed it with bananas, which I love. Anyway. Then her funny-glassed friend came (you can see her on the picture, and you can also see that I`m not too sure about where we stand with each other) and they took me to a place where the worst came. She took me for a walk in my stroller, withOUT Mommy! She was showing me stuff, but who cares when Mommy is not there?! I tried to tell her that, but she said Mommy was busy. Noooo! So I screamed and screamed with her. If I hadn`t missed my Mom so badly, I think I would`ve felt sorry for Melinda; she looked pretty desperate. Then finally Mom was done with her thing. I might be able to forgive her for that terrible 15 minutes though. Specially after she explained to me that because she did good today* and I was so great (khmmm, khmmm - excuse my fake cough :-), I get to go and play with Zander more. Not sure about the connection between these things, but I smiled anyway. I survived this afternoon after all.

(*I passed the knowledge test applying for my MN drivers license!)

Big appetite

Hello Everyone,

I`m growing and having a lot of fun here. Yesterday was Zander`s first birthday party; naturally I was there. I think this birthday thing is pretty cool, it looked like it was a time when you get your new toys. I think it`s time for mine, I`m bored with my toys. I ate chocolate cupcake, Mommy gave it to me, which means special occasion, since she never gives that kind of stuff. I`m telling you, it was a real break from beans and carrots. But just when I started to have fun, I cut my finger on my left hand with a coke can. That hurt and bled - red stuff. I got a funny sticky thing to cover it, boy, that tasted good! :-) But Mommy always ruins my fun; just when it tasted the best she took it off while saying "NEEEM, NOOO, NEEM" (lucky she is only bilingual, otherwise it`d take her more creative ways to yell at me) and threw it away.

My favorite toy these days: whatever Zander`s playing with at the moment. I teach him how to share. He`s getting very good at it, I have to say.

How Much I Love The Bath

It took a minute or two for me to realize that I liked taking baths. Maybe longer. Here's my first bath. As you'll see, I have no problem expressing my opinion on current events. And now here I am, big and still pretty serious about this bath time thing. Except no more purple-lipped screaming, only the love of water in my little green tub.

On The Go

Mostly I'm on the go.  Sometimes I stop to try and Figure Things.  Like how does this taste. Sometimes I get tired and need to take a break.  My favorite? Shopping or a bubble bath.  

I think I`m pretty funny.
Mommy can`t seem to stop laughing when I do that fake cough along with my fake frowns and fake sneeze. I didn`t really have a choice but being funny, she kept feeding me with that orange color chicken stuff and today it was even mixed with something sweet, carrots she said. But I realized that when she laughs, the spoon stops in her hand - a good way to escape a scoop. Although, I think she figured out my trick. It`s not that I don`t want to eat, just that maybe not exactly that much. In fact, I like to eat. My telephone, the butt cream container, cords (black ones are the best), rails and my all-time favorites, spoons.
Napping is another issue. It always feels much better after a 15 minute scream.
Have I told you yet? My cousin, who`s coming to play in May, is a boy!! That is awesome, surrounded with all guys, I think I really get to be the queen.


Szerintem elegge vicces vagyok.
Anyu nem tudja abbahagyni a nevetest, amikor kohogest szimulalok, grimasszal es tettetett tusszogessel. Nem nagyon volt mas valasztasom, mert valami narancssarga szinu csirke izevel tomott ma, ami valami edes dologgal volt keverve, repaval. De rajottem, hogy mikor nevet rajtam, a kanal megall a kezeben, ez egy jo trukk arra, hogy megusszak egy falatot. Bar mar rajott erre o is. Nem arrol van szo, hogy nem szeretek enni, csak talan nem annyit, amennyit o akar belem tomni. Sot, szeretek enni. A jatektelefonomat, a popsikenocsom tubusat, zsinorokat, kabeleket (a feketek a legjobbak), dolgok szelet, na es az orok kedvencemet, kanalakat.
Az alvas az egy masik dolog. Mindig jobban esik 15 perc uvoltes utan.
Mondtam mar? Az unokatesom, aki majusban jon jatszani, fiu!! Ez kiraly, ezzel a sok fiuval korulveve, azt hiszem igazan kiralyno lehetek.

I saw two squirrels today, playing on the trees in front of our window!! The most exciting scene ever! I think they put on a show just for me, they were so playful and they kept coming closer to make sure I can see them from the window. I also saw snow blowing from the neighbor`s balcony and I even heard the sizzling sound it made. We went outside and it felt cold. Mommy bundles me up well in my baby carrier (lucky when you`re tiny, and fit in there even at almost 9 months), but I can still feel the chill. It`s funny to me how much people love me, only because I`m little and cute. I don`t even have to be nice to them or smile, they smile when they look at me. Is that a funny world! For example that man in the grocery strore today. I could tell, mom slowly got bored listening to that old guy telling her about the raising gas prices and about buying me property up north so I can live all right when I grow up. Property? Up north? Huh? Anyway. We escaped by agreeing that I`m pretty precious and cute and my future is important. He also said it was time for him to have a granddaughter after so many boys. See? That`s the thing. I`m not only baby and cute and stuff, but I`m also a girl, so people feel a special desire to "sweethunnybunny" me for whatever reason they have. :-) I wonder what if I was a boy.


Ma lattam ket mokust kergetozni az ablakunk elott a fakon!!! Ez volt a nap legizgalmasabb resze. Szerintem csak nekem csinaltak a fogocskajukat, annyira jatekosak voltak es egyre kozelebb jottek az ablakhoz, hogy jobban lassam oket. Elotte meg a szel fujta a havat a szomszed teraszarol es hallottam is ahogy sistergett a sok ho. Aztan kimentunk es nagyon hideg volt. Anyu jol bebugyolal a kengurumba (szerencse hogy ilyen kicsi vagyok es meg majdnem 9 honaposan is beleferek), de meg igy is erzem a hideg szelet. Az vicces, hogy mennyire szeretnek az emberek engem, csak mert kicsi vagyok es cuki. Nem is kell hogy rajukmosolyogjak, sokszor ok mosolyognak ram. Fura vilag! Peldaul az a ficko a boltban ma. Lattam anyun ahogy untatta az az oreg bacsi, aki arrol beszelt neki, hogy emelkednek a benzinarak es hogy vennie kellene nekem egy ingatlant eszakon hogy jo legyen amikorra felnovok. Micsoda? Ingatlant? Eszakon? Mi van? Megmenekultunk azzal, hogy egyetertettek abban, hogy milyen ertekes kis kincs vagyok es milyen aranyos es hogy a jovom fontos. Ja meg azt is hozzatette, hogy alig varja, hogy legyen mar egy lany unokaja annyi fiu utan. Latod? Errol beszelek. Nem csak hogy baba vagyok es edi meg ilyenek, hanem lany is vagyok, igy az emberek valami specialis kesztetest ereznek arra, hogy "megbogyoruzzenek" akarmilyen okuk is van ra. Neha azon gondolkodok mi lenne, ha fiu lennek.

I don`t understand why it`s so hard to understand that I need to cling on my Mommy all the time. I just have a hard time being happy when I get put down. My butt is not meant for sitting. Sometimes I wonder what it is that I really want when I whine and scream. I think nothing special, maybe some attention, more. I have to be around Mommy, to make sure she still loves me. I`m not too sure she can love me from more than an inch far.


Fogalmam sincs miert olyan nehez megerteni, hogy nekem az anyukamon kell lognom allandoan. Egyszeruen csak nem erzem boldognak magam amikor letesz. Az en popom nem ulesre lett tervezve. Neha en is azon gondolkodok, hogy mit akarok amikor vinnyogok es sikoltozok. Szerintem semmi kulonoset, talan egy kis figyelmet, vagyis meg tobbet. Anyu kozeleben kell lennem, hogy biztos legyek benne, hogy meg mindig imad engem. Nem vagyok teljesen biztos benne, hogy egy centinel messzebbrol is tud engem szeretni.

In comparison

I show this right after the one bellow, so you can see how much we`ve grown! This was taken at Minnehaha Falls in the fall of '07. Those 3 months between us are slowly disappearing. We`re growing soo biig!

Ezt rogton az ez alatti utan mutatom, hogy lasd mekkorat nottunk! Ez a Minnehaha vizesesnel keszult `07 oszen. Az a koztuk levo 3 honap lassan el is tunik.
Akkorak vagyunk!!

Cleaning up the closet

Can you spot me? I`m the one on the left, in white. The tiny one. This picture is going to be a classic one, even the color suggests that. See my daddy`s hair? He always thinks it looks hot and awesome when it reaches a certain length. I`ll have to be the one to tell him that it`s cuter short - and he`ll listen to me. Cuz it`s me. I think he`s proud to be my Papa.

Kitalaltad melyik vagyok en? Az a kis feher a bal oldalon, a pici. Ez a kep egy klasszikus lesz, meg a szine is erre utal. Latod apu hajat? Mindig azt hiszi, hogy meno es kiralyul nez ki, amint eler egy bizonyos hosszusagot a haja. Nekem kell majd megmondanom neki, hogy jobb roviden, es akkor majd hallgat ram. Mert en mondom. Szerintem buszke arra, hogy az en apum.

Having fun yet?

Hello everyone!
Happy 2008!

I had a blast last night, partying with Zander and the parents. I guess they had a good time too, but not nearly as great as I had, playing with his precious toys and hogging his little phone...he did try to win it back a few times, but I have to say, it`s getting clear who`s really wearing the pants. :-) Some would say I`m a little intense when it comes to protecting my stuff, even if I`m the only one who thinks it`s mine. That makes it mine. Well, anyway. I can always just cry. I`m a girl after all with all its privileges.

Oh and Zander, he went to sleep soo early I couldn`t believe it. Someone had to keep the party going, so I stayed up until 12.30 a.m. just to make sure...

What did you say, Daddy? Me, party girl? :-)

Do you like my headband?

Mindenkinek szia!

Boldog 2008-at!

Kiraly volt tegnap este Zander-rel meg a szulokkel bulizni. Gondolom ok is jol ereztek magukat, de biztos nem annyira mint en. Zander jatekaival jatszottam vegig es teljesen befoglaltam a kis telefonjat...szegeny probalta parszor visszavenni tolem, de meg kell mondanom, mar latszik, hogy ki fogja itt igazan viselni a nadragot. :-) Van aki szerint kicsit tulzasba viszem a dolgot, ami az en dolgaimat illeti, amik nem is mindig az enyemek, csak en gondolom ugy. En vedem a maset is, persze magamenak alcazva. Igy kulonben is az enyem, arra az idore biztosan. Na mindegy. Ha valami nem jon ossze, meg mindig sirhatok. Vegulis lany vagyok minden kivaltsagaval egyutt.

Ja es Zander, annyira koran ment aludni, hogy alig akartam elhinni. Igy hat valakinek eletben kellett tartania a partyt, persze nekem kellett hajnali fel 1-ig fenn maradni...

Mit mondtal apa, en partylany?

Tetszik a hajpantom?