Holidays on the east coast

New York

Birthdays, Holidays, Family, New York and just don’t get me started

We are back. Back in sunny California after spending 10 days on the east coast.
Our trip was great, we had lots of fun and it was so nice to see everyone and meet all the new people in our life.
We left on the 18th and took a “red eye” to Newark and Naddie did great on the flight. She slept mostly or entertained the passengers around us.
We stayed with my brother and Bea (his fiancé) in Connecticut for 6 days in their new home and celebrated Christmas with them and Bea’s parents and my parents and my younger brother and his wife.
Naddie had jet leg for two days but after getting over it she was in her element the whole time. She had everyone wrapped around her fingers and loved all the attention she was getting.
We also celebrated her first birthday and my brother Zoltan made her very first cake and the very first sweet thing she could have. She liked the taste but she really did not like the mess that came with it.
She got some toys and clothing and some money (that will be sitting in her account for a long time) and she also got a chicken. A real one!!! Well, my brother Gabor and his wife Leah bought a chicken that was donated to a poor family in Naddie’s name. We thought it was such a great gift!! This chicken will be giving lots and lots of eggs to a family in need!!
We also spent some time in New York City and we got a chance to stay in the most amazing apartment thanks to the Pakh family.
Naddie got to ride in a cab and ate Chinese, Indian and Mexican food.
We saw some old friends and Will’s old professor and his wife.
To give you some updates on her:
- she is repeating a lot of things when you tell her to “say……”
- she clearly says and uses “who is that?” and “what is that?”
- she says Lisa (it made Lisa teary eyed)
- she says “hi there”
- she can walk when you hold one of her hands
- she is eating pretty much everything we give her
- she learned to blow kisses from my dad
- she gives high five when you ask her to
- she also knows when I tell her not to do something and stops and repeats the no sound I use (it is pretty funny)
She is now a toddler and believe me she sure knows it!!!

As we are getting ready…..

So I have a few minutes to write and take a break from getting ready for our trip to back east. We will be leaving tomorrow and I am not sure when I will have time to put up a new post? As I was getting Naddie ready for her bath tonight I was thinking to myself “she has no idea what’s coming her way”, and than I thought “well, nor do we”.
We are flying red eye, which at the time we made the reservation seemed to be a good idea and as we got closer to the date I realized we might have made the biggest mistake so far. I guess we are going to find out tomorrow night. I just have to keep repeating “DO NOT PANIC, DO NOT PANIC, DO NOT PANIC”.She is doing great though. She is totally getting ready for a big change! We can totally tell. She has taken a few steps this past week and she was so confident and was not surprised at all. I guess she might be practicing while I am not looking because it was the first time I have ever seen her do it. She also said “whasshat?” today after she heard a big truck go by while I was getting her in her car seat. She is repeating more and more words and can totally surprise us with new sounds and will just talk and talk and talk…

At the playground

We went to our favorite park today and I finally took some pictures of Naddie.
I absolutely love this playground! We can spend hours here and she just keeps going from one thing to the next and than back.
She will laugh soo hard while she is in the swing and loves climbing the fire truck. Today she was planning to exit out of the “moving” vehicle. Yes, it moves if you push on it.She will also sit front of the slide so that I get the picture. I put her on the top of it and she slides down with my help. We continue to do this over and over again until I talk her into something different. To get her in the car (to head home) afterward is another story.

Fun Picks

Thanksgiving and all the fun holiday fixings

Naddie celebrated her very first thanksgiving with her great grandparents, grandparents and uncle and aunt at our house. Daddy and cool uncle G were the chefs for the day and they made a fabulous dinner for all of us. Naddie really enjoyed having everyone around and all the attention she was getting for days. She was so exhausted at the end that she literarily had to take a break from everyone.
We are also getting ready for our trip to New York. We will be there from the 18th- the 28th and if anyone would like to see us while we are there just send us an email and we can schedule some time to get together. We will be busy with family but we will have time for our friends as always!
Naddie is now 11 months and she is getting so big. She is still not walking and for now I am really happy about that. She is very active and loves going and going and going…
She climbs up the stairs (all the way) and thank good she is not trying to climb back down just yet. I think, from what I see, she actually understands that she cannot do that yet. She absolutely loves dancing and will even do it if you just whistle something to her.
She is talking a lot in her own language and knows quite many words now in English and in Hungarian. She is just starting to say THERE and THANK YOU in English and she says APA for daddy and CICA for kitty and ANYA for mom in Hungarian.
She also understands basic questions and will react accordingly. She will give me her hands when I ask for them so that I can wipe them down and she will lift her feet when I ask to put the shoos on. She is also becoming a DRAMA QUEEN!! She loves dramatic moments and acting them out. The other day she really wanted to get out of her high chair, but I was not ready with cleaning her up, when she throw her head back and then leaned forward, put her forehead on the high chair tray and was crying out loud: AYAYAYAYA!!!Hollywood here we come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!