Yesterday

Hey Girls!
Best wishes to Mohita! Enjoy Alaska, and then your new job! It sure sounds exciting!!
Here is yesterday evening, two of our friends came .. it was quite late at the time of the pictaken ;)






She's Eszter, great great friend :)

Not too much to write now ..
Bori is still kicking a lot, a lot lot .. specially in the evenings. and sometimes it can be quite hurtful. But I guess it's nothing compare to the actually birth giving. I can still feel she has plenty of room since the different areas of the kicking. But I'm getting big big big.. it starts to feel the last 3 months all right.
It was hot, then it was moderate and now it's hot again .. 30-35C, which is between 90-100F. Staying inside, and running the AC (we only have it in the living room).
Last Wednesday I had a little get-together here: my two best friends, Viki and Gabi came, with their children, and also a third friend, with her 16weeks son. So it was quite a day for the children.
Here are some pics from that day:

This is Viki and me: Viki is 16 weeks pregnant with their third child :D of course we are playing on it, but can you tell that I'm 10 weeks ahead :D ;)



Gabi, Viki and me.


From the left: Zita (Viki's first born daughter, she's 8 months younger than Reka, quite a tall girl, but her mom and her dad are both tall, so go figure..)
Fanny (Gabi's daughter, she's 2y5mos old)
Reka :D
playing with Reka's old swing


Viki and the kids stayed a bit longer, so they had a bath together at the end of the day: Zita, Anna (Viki's second daughter) and Reka... we have a big bathtub :D:D:D



Thursday we went to Lake Balaton for a couple of days. Balint's grandmom has a little house there, it was quite calm and nice and relaxing. Did quite a bit of work on my PhD, which made me frustrated, so now I have to find my motivation again.. I'll not go into details..
I made Reka's hair funny, but sure it was comfy for the lake :D





On the top of the bunk-bed, where Daddy used to sleep when he was little :D


Hard work at the Lake too ;) :D


And tired at the end of the day, also soccer European championship quarterfinals :D


We suppose to go for a vacation on Thursday for a week, but I'm not yet sure if it will really happen. Keep you updated :D

before Friday

It's definitely June here. Last week was quite hot, this week was a bit calmer but still, no need for sweaters, and next week it'll be the 30C's again, which is around 90F.
We got Reka a pool, bigger than a cheap small one so Balint can fit in, it can filter the water, but it's not a real, big, digged in the ground pool..
we miss the apartman-complex, where they just walked down to the pool every afternoon after work and had a little splash/swim. Now she can enjoy water again..
I'm feeling great, for the first time in my pregnancy I think.. up till mid May I felt big, and my skin felt stretched all the time, and I had some comfort issues.. now it's getting much better, I got used to my bigger belly, it doesn't disturb me that much, I got used to not able to turn sides in the bed, etc etc .. and it shows in other areas.. for example science, I can focus on the research much much better..
I've started to clear up some issues with the DUKE-research that I left end of March, also, I'm working on my phd research, which is going much better than any other time... and one of Balint's students, Csaba, has some great ideas involving a QQQ and some modeling, which would be awesome for my phd, so we might work on that.. of course first I have to be successful in the modeling (protonated glycine) I'm currently doing, cause that's the base for any other project...
Bori is kicking a lot, still moving all around in me, which is so funny.. yesterday I actually felt when she changed positions, I felt that my belly will rip cause she must have sticked her butt out so that she can change her orientation.. and soon enough she started kicking almost opposite up till then (towards my right ribs.. vs. my cervix)
anyway, that's life here, the country is still a shit, but hey, we have only 1.5 months left, and if we stay inside our garden, it's pretty nice :)

another month is gone

Yesterday I had to visit my gynecologist again, another month has gone by. I could not wait to meet her actually, last week Bori was kicking inside me like crazy and as I've mentioned most of the times towards the bottom, so it's quite a funny strange feeling. I wanted to hear from my doc that everything is fine and I'm holding up tight and strong .. and I am, so I'm relieved.
(with Reka my cervix opened up to 1 inch at week 33 so I was on bed-rest for 5 weeks, till week 37, and since Bori is kicking my cervix all the time, I was a little worried, cause I can't afford bed-rest now, I have to be fine to be able to fly :D)
She's fine, healthy, staying in my upper belly, which is the way it suppose to be, and I'm nice and tight everywhere :D.
when I've told my doc that she's kicking a lot, a lot-lot, she grabbed her ultrasound and we checked her out in 2 minutes, which was a big surprise for me, I mean the ultrasound :D
so at 3pm yesterday (GMT-2hr) her head was up, under my right side ribs, and her legs were pointing towards down (I could feel cause while I was waiting to get in she was kicking, so I had a pretty good feeling;)). She also confirmed that Bori will be a girl, of course she added that it's quite unusual that she can see that clearly, cause she's not that good in the ultrasound..
Of course since then she was kicking me on my sides, upper parts, so probably she has turned inside me a couple of times... it's so funny how much space she has now.. well, she should enjoy it while it last because soon enough there will be none :D
and one other thing.. the same with Reka, according to my doc, and every book, etc.. I'm gaining too much weight, even though I don't really feel it... so officially I'm on a diet. that means no bread, no pasta, no pastry.. at least I'll try.. but I was fine with Reka, I could go back more or less to the same weight as before, even if it was only last summer and I promise it'll not take 3 years now... anyway, that's life..
anyway, that was yesterday. and amazingly I don't need any blood-work or any examination in the next months, so I'm free from the docs... :D next scheduled visit on: 06/25/08.

On Monday I had to go to get my blood-work done, that means 7-7:15am arrival to the hospital, which is an hour away from our house.. so I got up at 6am, not that much fun, and drove...
and of course they were mean and nothing worked.. I was not on the list for Monday, probably my doc has forgot to tell them I should be coming, they could not find my vein at 7:45am of course .. and then I had to drink a glucose syrup for blood sugar testing, and wait for 2hours, and get my blood again .. at that time of course the nurse could find my vein easily, so it was no problem .. but still.. making expecting women to get up at 6am to get to the hospital to 7am is cruel I think, specially if they are mean and rude to them ..
yesterday I told Balint that I am at the point where I had enough from this country for now.. ready to go back to the US, enjoy some civilization, where people are nice, smiling or at least not rude, the stores are for you and not vica versa.

The last thing I wanted to mention that summer is here practically .. it started on the weekend and Tuesday, Wednesday it was 30C here, which is around 85F I think.. and yesterday we had some higher level of humidity than it's usual here... so tank-tops and skirts are the way to go now..

Busy week-weekend

This whole past week was quite busy: we had Nick and Will from NC (Tom's lab) visiting. They've stayed with us, Thursday and Friday my husband was with them at the University and in Budapest, we just waited for them in the evening so all of us could come home together by car. Friday evening it was at 10pm I believe.. so you can guess Reka was pretty excited :)
Saturday we planned a bit of country sight-seeing: we went to Esztergom, where the Bazilika is, that is the biggest church in Hungary. Then we ate at our favorite restaurant in the forest, and then took a look at the castle at Visegrad, and on the way home the guys and Reka took a bath in one of the public pools near Budapest. It was fun, but tiring of course.
This pics is near the Visegrad castle at an overlook: Nick is on my left and Will is on my right, Balint is taking the picture, Reka was too lazy to get out of the car ;)

Sunday early morning I took the guys to the airport and then around 9am we left for Balaton, where Balint's grandmom has a little house and most of the family members gathered there for yesterday. Reka had kid company, which I enjoyed cause I was eased from watching Reka every single minutes. Although it was a pleasant day, still it's ca. an hour away from our house, so 2 hours traveling got some energy out of me.
So today, Monday, we are staying at home, taking it easy. Reka is playing, I'm working on my laptop.

tough week

It's been a pretty rough tough week.. for many many reason, with a big sad news that my cousin's in vitro wasn't successful, in fact, she's undergoing a surgery today, now, cause it shows that she is in fact pregnant, but they can't see it with the ultrasound, so they suspect it's an outsideofthewomb-pregnancy .. poor girl, it can easily means that she can never have children at all .. I was with her yesterday afternoon.. anyway, it's hard, and life is not fair, really really really not fair... sometimes I'm wondering why God challenges the better people more than they deserves.. :((((( it's just too much for her...
Bori is still kicking like crazy inside me, which is still quite strange considering how early I should be, and still doing the morning hiding evening out game, which puts great challenge on my skin and on me too actually..
Weather is beautiful, ideal 20-25C, which is around 80s I guess, low humidity, sun is shining, but not that strong yet.. ideal spring weather.. i love it.
ok, I'll get back to you girls with more photos, cause Balint is back, and we've done some pics in the last few days...
Everybody have a nice weekend!

a picture in exchange for ... :)

This morning, 94cm.. made and measured by myself .. :)

Interesting things :D

Girls, it's so wonderful hearing from you, I miss you all!!!
Here's a little story, actually two, for you to talk about .. :)
first: my story about this weekend.. it's quite funny, or strange I would rather say.. well, Bori, she's kicking a lot in me, early as it is, she has her times. in the morning before I get up, of course, then some random times around the day, and then always at 8:30pmish, for an hour or so.. and in the past two-three days she's kicking down .. not my bladder, so it's not that discomfort feeling, rather my cervix or so.. it's rather a strange feeling, and it's very tiring I have to add.. for the first time in this pregnancy I had to lie down on a bed for 5-10 minutes due to the size of my baby ;) ok, this is not true, in the beginning, when you throw up, you have to lie down, and that's due to the size too ;) it's too small ;) anyway, you get the picture, right? :) thank God I was staying with my parents this weekend, and they could occupy Reka for some time while I was lacking my usual energy ...
the second story .. I called my friend, Viki, this evening, to see how she's doing. You know, my friend from high school, who just found out not too long ago, that she's pregnant with her third baby.. so I called, and asked how she's doing, etc etc.. and she told me that she's going to see her gyn on Wednesday, and going to see the baby again .. so it turned out that every time she's going to meet with her gyn, her doc is checking the baby with an ultrasound!!! and recording it too... WOW... wowowow, this is something spoiling, isn't it? I know that in the US there's one in the beginning, to check when was the conception, then there's one around week 19-20 for some disorder screening, that's when you can find out the sex of the baby, but to my knowledge, that's it in the US, right??? in Hungary, there's one in the beginning somewhere between week 7-10, then there's one around week 19, week 26-27, and one at the very end (week 37) to check the placenta and the position of the baby. but to see the baby every 4 weeks, that's quite
unusual.. She's going to a private gyn, so am I actually, it's a long story why.. our health-care is not too good.. anyway.. we pay almost the same for the same check-up every 4 weeks..
anyway .. so I don't know what to think. I'm jealous, a little bit of course, but same time I'm wondering ..
anyway, that's life, I don't want to change doc just so I can see the baby more often. and I have to get use to not having that many ultrasound anyway, if the third baby is going to come in the US anyway, hopefully ;) :D:D:D
oke, it's getting late here, I'll go get some things done and go to sleep. Everybody have a nice evening, and then check back tomorrow, cause Amie will get my pic in exchange for hers ;) hihihi
Hugs to everyone on the other side of this stupid Ocean.

it's been a while

My apology to everyone, it's been a while since I last wrote here.
Everything is good here, Balint is in Switzerland now, he's getting back on Wednesday, along with Will and Nick from Tom Baer's lab. So we'll have visitors for 4 days, they're leaving on Sunday early morning.
Reka is good, enjoying the grandparents and our garden.
I'm fine, getting bigger and bigger. Bori is getting bigger and bigger inside me. She's kicking a lot! I can't remember that Reka's kicked this much this early!!!??!!??!!
And the funniest thing is my belly size.. in the morning, it's not so huge, it's OK. but almost every evening, she's out, like i'm a month ahead..
anyway. it's quite funny.
my docs says everything is fine, the test are fine too.
But: here's something amazing.. in Hungary, you have to choose a gynecologist right from the beginning, you have to see your gyn every months. AND you have to see a so called protecting-woman every month too: she's something between nurse practitioner and nurse or midwife. Her job is to keep track the pregnant women, help her on the way of her pregnancy. It's mandatory otherwise you don't get your social benefits from the government. And then after the giving birth her job is to help the young mom at home: she has to visit the new-mom and baby once during the first 2-3 days when they got home, and then once more in the first 2 weeks, and then once more. It's also mandatory... After that you see her when you get your baby to have the mandatory vaccines. Anyway ..
so I went to see this women, I sat there for 20-25 minutes, she copied some numbers from my blood tests and measured my belly, it's 94cm now .. at least was at 9:30am on Thursday morning :D but that was it!!!! what a waste of time, hers and mine too..
too bad..
OK, that's it for today. I'll try to be a better girl and write a bit more often. and put up some pics..
I have tons of Reka, but none of me and my belly..
that's life. I'll try to improve and never give up, right? :D
Everyone have a blessed Pentecost, Monday is a holiday here in Hungary, after all we are a Christian country :D

It's a girl!!!! - almost certain :D

We're going to have a girl, Borbála, or Bori for short :D at least the doc was quite convinced. Yesterday I had the next ultrasound, everything was good. She's healthy, 342g, which is around 0.66 pounds, or 10.5 ounces. It was really good to see everything is great. And just how this ultrasound is amazing:
this time the estimated date of delivery is 2008-09-11, on the 14th of February it was 2008-09-12. It's pretty accurate, isn't it?
Anyway, it's quite nice to be able to call her Bori now, not baby.. Reka is so excited as well. :D
I have a dvd of the examination, but it's quite huge. I'll ask Balint to extract one pic of the whole movie, so I can post it here.

Weekend

Something is in the air for sure.. this weekend is full of new/crazy/exciting happenings..
Sun is shining, it's officially spring here, wonderful :D so all the new things should turn out a success and all the bad things should go away soon, right???? :D
Saturday I've started reorganizing the plants in the "winter-garden" in the upper floor. It's a big project, I've took out some of the old plants, rearranged the nicer ones and there is some space left for new ones, I'll try to get some with nice, brighter color.
After the gardening, while I was lying in the bed I felt the kicking for the first time! And a bit before some of the movements were quite stretching: it's like if the baby is turning in me and sticking the butt out :D my belly was quite non-symmetrical for sure :) i remember these from Reka's :)
Today after mass I've planted the ones that got out from that to individual pots while Reka was gardening and playing in her sandbox: we've worked outside in the terrace, it's beautiful... really!
Here are some pics of the new pots and the inside garden ... SOON ;)
We'll visit my grandparents and then one of my old friend, Viki and her family after nap-time.
Enjoy the weekend, it's so wonderful April!
wow :D something is in the air this weekend for sure!!!! I had to come back and share the news with you:
my friend, Viki is pregnant (9wks) with her 3rd child. wow :D I can't believe it, I'm so happy for them. Well, she didn't let me catch up with her for sure ;) Her first daughter Zita is 9 months younger than Reka, so 3.5 yrs old, the second daughter, Anna, she's 14months. They're moving to a bigger flat in 2-3 weeks.

alone time

Balint is gone to Switzerland, and hopefully this 10 days will be spent on some things I really have to get done. We'll see how things are moving and keep you updated :D
This morning I helped Balint pack and made sandwiches for the road and also my famous onion soup for lunch. Afternoon went smooth: workout with Reka and some more cleaning in the house. Evening we went slow with grocery shopping and took Balint's grandmom back to our house, where she'll sleep tonight and we'll take her home tomorrow. Got back around 8:30pm, slow dinner for Reka, it was 10pm she was in bed. No wonder I'm tired...

Mom-in-law's birthday

Today is my mom-in-law's birthday: she's 60 today. So we're making her a nice dinner: grilled chicken, I made a cottage-cheese cake - yet to make the jelly topping, and another great desert, also, Reka and I went down to Szekesfehervar, and got her mother, so it'll be a surprise to her. Reka is of course enjoying her great-grandmom here :D
About me: I'm getting bigger .. until early this week I was OK, got a few pounds more, but nothing shocking, it wasn't obvious.. but yesterday she/he popped out.. at least that's how I feel, and probably it's still not that big .. anyway, it's time I guess :) I'll try to post some pics..
Tomorrow, Balint, my husband is going to Switzerland to the synchrotron, for 10 days. So it's alone time again, but this time with Reka. But we'll not be bored: besides work (for David and Sarah and my phd) I have yet to visit my two best friends, one of them is having a rough time with her daughter's health, the other one is moving to a bigger flat. Also, we'll visit my cousin in Visegrad I hope, if the weather will be fine.
oke, back to cleaning the house, it's in-law's visit ;)

Máté Makai :D

This evening my sister gave birth to their first child: Máté Makai. :D He's 4100gr, just over 9 pounds, big baby, right? :D has lots of hair!! My sister was overdue by ca. 6 days, so she was induced with some mild drug, but it didn't help, he was still way up, so she had a Cesarean this evening around 10:30pm. So far that's the news we got from Switzerland :D:D
some pics: http://picasaweb.google.com/mzs.makai/MT
This weekend was great so far:
Friday I went to a phd defeat of one of my former classmate and colleague, he did his phd research in the same group I'm doing. It was quite stimulating seeing him getting over with this whole procedure, it gave me quite a bit of push towards really wanting my phd research to finish up at least as much as possible before our leave to CA.
Today we celebrated my brother's birthday, and then I went to my old elementary school big reunion with my brother: the school celebrates its 30th anniversary and the head/director of the school, my dear old teacher, whom I usually meet in the Opera listening to Wagner, is retiring after 30 years. So it was a big event... it was kind of nice to see the old faces, but of course not a whole lot of people I have anything in common... but that's life.. it was nice anyway... specially I met my old chemistry teacher: she gave me the initial push and excitement towards chemistry with her special afternoon chemistry sessions. It was nice to see her and talk to her and say a big Thank you for everything to her.
Tomorrow it's Formula1 race in Bahreim at 1:30pm, and then a meeting with my in-laws to tell them the big news about us at THE best and favorite restaurant of us, where we had our wedding party :D --> this also went well, besides of course that Kimi wasn't fast enough to win the race, but it was good enough for now... important is that Hamilton, the main rival had a bad start and couldn't score a point after all :) .. my inlaws were happy of course.. nothing surprising.
Have a wonderful weekend all of you!

Gyn and 21st of April

Yesterday I went to my gyn, everything went well, heartbeat is fine, they took my blood for AFP and some kind of glucose test. Next ultrasound is scheduled for the 21st of April, by that time it should be pretty obvious what's the sex of the baby.. and then the next gyn visit for the end of the month. Everything is routine up till this point.. More and more people knows now at home, I'm telling everybody as we meet: my parents on Tuesday, brother, my grandparents yesterday, neighbors, colleagues, etc. it's fun for sure... I'll try to take some pics of the house and garden and put it up sometimes over the weekend, it's getting beautiful here, like early March in NC..

06/12/08
I've found this pics dated back early April, so I'll post it here..

from Home for the first time

Got home safe and sound. Happy as can be :D
pics talk better than me :)
have a wonderful week all of you!

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Hey Everyone,
This is a blog for everybody so dear to me...
Too bad I can't be with you guys..
Keep you updated through this regularly, ok?