happy

every time i realize time is passing soo fast.. this is the song that comes in my mind..
he's one of my favorite Hungarian singer, we grew up "together" .. he became a great singer .. this one is one of his earliest song preformed at a concert in 1994..
although it's in hungarian hope you enjoy it..
happy 2009 for everybody, hope it'll be a happier, nicer and more successful year with tons of fun

bori :)

Yesterday Mary, Eva and Christian came to visit us :D Eva was a postdoc at Tom's lab, Christian is a prof at NCSU and Mary, their first daughter is 2. They're expecting their second in March :D Tom's former and current lab members were in their reproductive mood last year :D : first us, then Jim and Kristin expecting their first up in Seattle in 6 weeks, and then Eli and Kim also their first one early February and then of course Eva and Christian their second one :D I'm soooo happy for everybody .. we should get together, find a good place to live, set up a lab, where all of us can work and open up our own daycare next to the lab of course, so the kids can learn science immediately :D
oke, enough from the great ideas :D
so they left around 7pm, which was really 10pm for Mary since the time difference. and after they left, Bori was in her good mood :D screaming cause she was enjoying her time :D I'll post a video :D


of course normally she has her pants on, but I took it off for the video, cause she can't stop moving her legs, and it was blocking her... and this way it's easier to see how active she is :D

also some achievements:
I always put her down on her tummy to sleep, cause that's what she got used to in the hospital, as i wrote about it earlier.. and so a week ago in the middle of the night i woke up to a laughing sound that Bori does when she's happy and staring at her toy in her bed ON HER BACK .. yes, she learned how to turn to her back from her tummy :D and she's doing it ever since last weekend.. I think she only skipped one night.. so nowadays I have to get up at 3-4am, to flip her back to her tummy so she'll go back to sleep.. and so she does, really nice and sweet girl .. but sure she enjoys her time during the night :D it's so sweet, I'll try to capture it sometimes soon..
the other thing is that I'm giving some solid food for her now, since i no longer nursing her, so the sooner she's eating solid food the less formula i have to give her.. we've tried rice cerial, but she hates it and I'm not surprised, it has no taste (and of course added salt or sugar is not good, which I agree with actually) .. the second thing I've given her is potato puree, which was OK, she ate it but wasn't too enthusiastic about .. and this week I gave her yam :D sure she enjoys that :D and I don't blame her, it's sweet, good taste.. so that's where we are, her digestion is good, she enjoys it, and I don't have any problem with her .. :D:D:D
here's a little funny stuff for you :D whenever yam is mentioned/on the table, we always say: my two greatest enemies, Rachel Green and complex carbohydrates :D
it's from Friends, when Brad Pitt goes to the Thanksgiving dinner .. :D and Rachel enters with the yam, and Will (Brad Pitt) have this scene how he hates Rachel ..
here is it for you :D I couldn't find just that minute, but the whole scene, the referred funny part is at 2:30-3min :D but the whole piece is quite funny, I love it.. enjoy :D

Xmas

Just would like to put everybody in the mood.. so click to the left of this :D
Merry Xmas in advance for everybody! Love you guys, and miss you!!!

pictures

Yesterday afternoon, naptime ..



day before yesterday, at midnight, after the last feeding ..


sometimes this week: I was doing some stuff in the kitchen and Reka was entertaining Bori ... apparently with a bit too much animal :D


7th of December:


At a UoP volleyball game on 29th of November:


26th of November :D:D:D


24th of November: my inlaws with the kids...

don't even get me started on the Santa dress.. she wore it once, thank God is was small for her already..

23rd of November: after Bori's breakfast ..


17th of November afternoon: she's getting taller :D and bigger :D


13rd of November morning: my friend, Judit. She's in Livermore for her postdoc and gave a talk at UoP the day before. We know each other from the university, same year same chemistry MS ..


12nd of November, dinner with Judit. Andy, one of Balint's colleague at UoP came as well.. Andy is a great new friend, he helps us a lot, and Reka adores him quite much :D funny..

finally

It's been a while.. and what a busy month..

Bori: she's an angel, sweet, smiling, laughing..
she's around 13 pounds now, I've stopped breastfeeding ca. 3 weeks ago, it wasn't my choice, but I'm not too sad about it.. so she's eating 7-8 and sometimes even 9oz at a time.. amazing.. so since she's expanding quite a bit, actually seems like she'll pop out, I'm diluting this stupid formula (hey, i'm a scientists, should know what it does ;))..
she's healthy, had her shots early December. She's sleeping through the night, ever since election eve, I'm totally happy about that :D
and she's up more and more during the day... likes her animals, likes her hanging stuffs, listening and paying attention to them.. and laughs big times, so funny and sweet and can cheer me up anytime :D
car is not a problem, we can go wherever whenever we want, but sure she hates red lights.. whenever the car stops after 3-5 seconds she starts crying.. and unfortunately Stockton is not famous for its green wave.. stupid engineers.. ;)

Reka: still enjoying the daycare (Tue/Wed/Thurs morning), speaks English perfectly now, has friends, both at the daycare, and here around the neighborhood, and some of our friends from the university, like Andy and Silvio..
she has to learn how to play by herself again though, she forgot that, and I'm tired of her being around all the time from Friday till Tuesday..

Balint: enjoying the university.. his group is starting to get active, has 2 grad students and plenty of undergrad, but these numbers might increase actually.. his research is already rolling, and got some great grants from the university to go to Switzerland and to buy an automatic peptide synthesizer.. the semester is almost over, so he'll be prepping for next semester.. hopefully he'll be at home between Xmas and NYE..

me: at home :D my phd research is going great now, thanks to Karcsi and Laci... hopefully we'll be able to send out a paper sometimes in January.. and then we'll see..
that's the reason I was so busy even after my inlaws left, cause I wanted get some things done, and it's any two of the three next to the girls: blogging, working or working out :D so I choose the last two .. but this weekend I'm trying to get some other things done too..