The Little Lloyds

A pond down the road

2012-01-29T16:05:00.001+01:00

Tristan skiing

2012-01-26T15:37:00.002+01:00

Skiing in Radstadt

2012-01-24T21:27:00.007+01:00

A little time for ourselves - my new favourite: Jagatee, Gareth just stuck with the good old Schladminger...

Kids fooling around

Every morning problem

Girls waiting while...

...Dad and 2 other helpers trying their best with Tristan

5 o'clock tea or cake more like!

Elen's party

2012-01-14T21:14:00.005+01:00

33 adults 25 children...

Going to school - country style :)

2012-01-10T22:23:00.002+01:00

Tristan's first piece of art - a sheep :)

2012-01-10T22:12:00.002+01:00

Elen's corner

2012-01-10T21:31:00.004+01:00

It's been a while I wanted to post about our little girl and now it's her birthady (month) I grab the opportunity and keep everyone updated about her development.
As every 2 years old baby she had to see a sort of nurse (védőnő) and we found out the followings: even though her height is normal, the lady said her weight is under average, but she is not skinny at all, she got her little cushions where it's needed, but she is still light as a feather. We agreed that she is definitely going to be supermodel shape!
Only couple of weeks ago she really started to talk, but since than, Oh, my Lord! She would not stop!
Here are some cute little phrases (in Hungarian) she uses:
cumi-muci
elefánt-elemlán
banán-bajaja
kakas-dadas
papagáj-bababá
nagy-dzsadzs
Triszti sír-cici csiiii
She is absolutely adorable when she talks, really cute voice and words and also she gives these certain looks for being hurt or feeling sorry for someone, lovely! It is different with a girl, I can comb her hair (what is going to be a challenge by to look of it as it's getting really curly) for minutes and she just sits, really lady like! Here is a picture of the Missy with her first two ponytales, she loved them!

She is really advanced in getting dressed and eating by herself, she actually insist on doing everything 'egyedül' (alone). She is also very girlish in the way she is running, Daddy always picking on her, I just find it cute!
A bit annoying terrible two thing is coming up: tantrum. She has perfected a high pitch note when she screams, with tears and all, which she can turn on at a drop of a hat! Causes for tantrums: wiping her hands in something else but the kitchen towel, picking the blue boots when she wants to wear the pink one (Oh, yeah, everything in pink colour belongs to her by the way), Daddy taking her jacket off instead of Mummy, taking her hat off in the car, cutting up her food without permission etc.

Elen at home

2012-01-09T10:11:00.003+01:00

Happy Birthday Little Princess!!!!

2011-12-26T21:06:00.002+01:00

I can't believe you are already 2! Time has flown so quickly since you have arrived into our lives and brightened it up. You definitely have! You are always happy and full of love! You are living in your own little world where you are the princess and everything is yours and you love everything and everyone who is in this world! We also love you so much! XXX
Happy Birthday

First snow

2011-12-21T21:19:00.001+01:00

Tristan trying his acting skills

2011-12-20T21:59:00.000+01:00

Our Xmas Tree

2011-12-12T11:53:00.003+01:00

Before

Everyone is working hard

After

Preparing our boots

2011-12-07T10:57:00.002+01:00

Happy Birthday Daddyyyyy!

2011-11-28T21:29:00.002+01:00

This video was taken while waiting Daddy to come home, we were waiting for him for about 30 minutes, had to take the later bus on this very day!

Horseriding with Roland and Tara

2011-11-02T12:31:00.002+01:00

October in Wales

2011-10-17T20:36:00.009+02:00

At Ann's

Trip

Rosili

Barry Island

It's been 4 years...HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!

2011-09-08T22:06:00.000+02:00

We have been running

2011-09-07T23:22:00.001+02:00

Fun in the bath

2011-09-02T14:56:00.002+02:00

We had a lovely day at Boldizsar's

2011-09-02T14:33:00.002+02:00

Birthday partyyyyyy

2011-07-24T21:21:00.006+02:00

Birthday celebrations, presents and some holiday

2011-07-14T21:58:00.004+02:00

Tristan is 3 years old

2011-07-07T16:37:00.001+02:00

We wish happy birthday to our happy chappy! Lot of love from Daddy, Elen and Mammy

Lovebirds

2011-07-03T22:27:00.002+02:00

Sunday = exploration day!

2011-06-28T22:59:00.002+02:00

Our new home

2011-06-19T19:32:00.003+02:00

First BBQ

The children got used to the place very quickly also

Living room area, the entrance in the far left and the bathroom is behind the glassbrick

Kitchen

City vs. country

Older pictures from the outside, the cellar door is in progress, but the brickwork is already done

Cellar

The welsh flag is already hanging from the attick

Breaking news

2011-06-04T21:31:00.002+02:00

We have moved in to Our lovely new house in Nagykovácsi! Thanks for everyone for all the help and support! Sorry, we have disappeared for a little while, but things were crazy, still lot of things to do!

Happy Easter Everyone!

2011-04-25T13:44:00.000+02:00

Small talk about important things

2011-04-02T23:08:00.002+02:00

Conversation in the kids bedroom while they should be having their afternoon nap, they both in their cots, I can hear them from outside:
Tristi: -Elike kakálsz? (Elike, are you having a poo?)
Elen: - Heeeee
Tristi: - Igen? (are you?)
Elen: - Dde
Tristi: - Én kakálok! (I am)
And so it was....

Elen is walking

2011-03-28T20:46:00.004+02:00

It's been 2 weeks now since our little darling daugther decided that she is ready and started walking on her own. She is a level-headed person, so she waited until she was certain. She is going through big developments as she also teething, so now she is eating what we have and with the extra teeth her smile changed and she looks even more prettier! Tristan enjoys his new play buddy as he is starting to realise Elen is not only for torture :) Although Elen has realised she has to stand up for herself. As soon as Tristan takes her toy or pushes her or even goes near her if she doesn't want company, she turn on the tears! Very clever, but we know her little tricks now so we are trying to be righteous, not easy. She started to walk a bit later, but she is very skillful in other things. She is eating a lot of things by herself now and she is very annoyed if we decide to feed her. She is copying her brother in everything, she is playing by herself so well! She still sleeps twice a day, very good sleeper, no problems in the nights.

First step video 3rd of March, the day before we moved!

2 weeks later...

Jam vs. Nutella

2011-03-20T10:46:00.000+01:00

Life in boxes

2011-02-28T00:54:00.002+01:00

Packing, wrapping, lifting, shifting, taking apart, getting rid of...we are moving out in a week! For about 3 months we will go to a rental and hopefully in June we will be able to move in our future home, a lovely little house! The adults are a little bit frustrated about the situation but the little ones seem to enjoy it!

Little Building Team

2011-02-23T08:39:00.002+01:00

Mascarade in nursery

2011-02-17T09:40:00.000+01:00

Come on Wales!

2011-02-04T09:05:00.000+01:00

Simple things...

2011-02-02T12:20:00.002+01:00

1 year check up

2011-01-20T11:28:00.002+01:00

Elen is developing great, she is a little lighter than she should be (her weight is 8600g) but the peaditritian said she looks so well so there is nothing to worry about! Her length is 73 cms.
She is walking alongside the furniture and getting more and more comfortable, she is looking to make her first steps very soon!
She has started to "talk", she tries really hard, but nothing what we understand came out yet other than dada, mama, hamma etc.
She is really advanced in playing (thanks to older brother I think) she is putting duplo pieces together and making coffe :)
She is clapping, waving, smiling and blinking back and recently started to give the cutest kisses in the world!

Birthday Girl

2011-01-12T21:20:00.006+01:00

Presents :)

2010-12-29T13:42:00.002+01:00

Christmas Eve and Christmas Dinner

2010-12-29T13:28:00.004+01:00

Definitely getting a nice gravy boat for next year :)

The 5th member of our family!

I think someone would love to taste that champagne!

Happy Birthday to our darling Elen!

2010-12-26T19:22:00.001+01:00

We love you both so much! XXX

Merry Christmas to Everyone! - Boldog Karácsonyt Mindenkinek

2010-12-24T22:06:00.000+01:00

Winter holiday in Sonnentherme

2010-12-16T22:08:00.008+01:00

Tristan

2010-11-28T15:07:00.001+01:00

Happy Nameday/Saint to Tristan! And also Happy Birthday to Daddy (25th November) and Imre Papi (30th November)! Last week was all about celebrating, just like a dress rehersal before Christmas!

Latest

2010-11-22T12:44:00.003+01:00

We have started nursery last week, in Hungary it's about two weeks to be fully "trained". At the begining we go in together than he spends longer and longer period of time inside. Today I had to go out for about half hour, he was screaming for a bit, but than he stopped and started again after 10 minutes, but they say we are doing well. He's got a really cool sign: car. So far he enjoys the kids company and the new toys, unfortunately the weather is really rainy so they can't go out, that would make the whole procedure easier!

Visiting Uncle Govinda in Krsna Valley, Somogyvámos

2010-11-16T21:35:00.004+01:00

Ganging it up

2010-11-12T22:46:00.000+01:00

Aunty Diane and Grandma were over in October

2010-11-11T22:06:00.004+01:00

Daddy was right

2010-11-10T22:02:00.002+01:00

Mam has been worrying about Elen's development as she didn't really want to crawl. She was pulling herself with her arms and than started to stand up, than sit down, but no crawling, Dad always said there is nothing to worry about, just give her time! This has changed tonight, she has started to crawl, so, here it is: Daddy was right!

Bathtime

2010-11-06T09:41:00.002+01:00

Bambi

2010-11-05T14:02:00.003+01:00

It's been a few weeks when Elen first stood up. She started with standing on her knees and sat back, sometimes a yoga instructor would be jelous! She is now really confortable and confident on her knees, so she is constantly trying to stand up, but than she has no idea what to do! She is really frightened and shaky, just like little Bambi!

Baby Lia has arrived a week ago

2010-11-04T20:09:00.002+01:00

Big hugs and kisses to the happy parents!

Little Chef

2010-11-02T21:38:00.002+01:00

This is just too cute

2010-10-12T10:15:00.002+02:00

Csigabiga by Tristan, with a touch of punk rock

2010-10-12T09:18:00.002+02:00

FB visited

2010-09-30T22:39:00.005+02:00

Christmas babies visited

2010-09-28T18:39:00.000+02:00

Elen is 9 months old

2010-09-26T20:45:00.003+02:00

A little summary about our baby princess
Moving: still not really interested in crawling she does this "baby G.I Jane" way of moving forward and goes up on her knees sometimes, and she has this legs across, bum in the air and looking backwards pose also! So cute!
Weigth, length: she is the lightest from the 4 friends she has from the hospital, around 7500 gramms, but she is not short!
Teeths: 4 (very good)
She is on formula now (3 times a day), no breastmilk for a few weeks, and one fruit and one vegetable portion a day, but we will change that soon to 2 formula, 2 veg and 1 fruit meals a day!
Sleeps: she sleeps all night, it was only a problem when the breastmilk wasn't enough for her, once we started the formula she sleeps 11-12 hours per night. She goes back to sleep in the morning for about 2 hours, than they are both sleeping at lunchtime and sometimes she has a little snooze in the afternoon, but thoose are getting rarer! All together we cannot complain!

Sharing....NOT!

2010-09-26T14:08:00.002+02:00

Vocabulary

2010-09-19T23:13:00.002+02:00

Names: Lloyd Tristan, Lloyd Elus, Lloyd Mami and Lloyd Jaffa (one of Bampi's cats)
Hajrá Magyarország: Hajrá Mugugyuja
Happy Birthday, Pen blwydd hapus, Boldog Szülinapot: Happy Szőlő

Videos from Wales

2010-09-09T21:09:00.003+02:00

Waiting in the car

Tristan and Leah on the sledge

Happy 3rd anniversary!

2010-09-08T12:57:00.002+02:00

Home

2010-09-02T23:31:00.004+02:00

After 2 days driving and 1 day doing absolutely nothing I can announce that we have arrived home. We have put about 5000 kilometers in the car (mostly Daddy, well done, big thank you for that). The drive back was much easier with the kids they were really calm and probably got used to this travelling thing by then, only a little sickness every now and then bothered us. Of course the ferry ride was the roughest I have ever lived through! Tristan made sure everyone was feeling sorry for him for about an hour, poor little man...than he puked so we had a nice audience! On that day I have done 5 brutal nappy and 5 sickness with changing the whole outfit (the washing machine haven't stopped since we arrived).
We are back to normal, although the summer has gone without saying goodbye, little sad about that, but there we are, it's time for jumpers and jackets!
Next thing to look forward to is the half marathon on Sunday, go on Daddy and Mammy!

Cornwall

2010-08-25T22:16:00.011+02:00

We have been quite lucky with the weather as 2 the whole days we spent in Cornwall were really nice and sunny so we spent as much time as we could outside.

Went to visit a friend in Newly, we walked around this really nice village which happened to have the largest fishing harbour in Britain! Impressive!

Sennen cove beach

Wales

2010-08-19T23:32:00.002+02:00

Finally we have arrived! Trip was really adventurous, the children were awesome, but yet the trip was really tireing. We have done it, now its holiday mode! -it means rain :)

Elen saint

2010-08-18T21:28:00.001+02:00

18th August is the Saint day of Ilona, which is the Hungarian version of Elen! So Happy Saint Day Lovely Girl!
ps.: We are in Dusseldorf, long way to here, long way in front of us, but hopefully tomorrow evening in Wales!

We are off on Tuesday

2010-08-15T21:20:00.002+02:00

We are off to Wales on Tuesday, we are really excited, started packing already...
Roadtrip plan:
17th afternoon: 4 hours drive until Kronstorf, a little village next to the German-Austrian border
18th: 7 hours drive until Düsseldorf where we are staying at our friend's place
19th: 4 hours to Calais, than 2 hours with the ferry until Dover, than another 3,5 hours to Wales
We are staying in Wales until 22nd than we are visiting Ian in Cornwall, hopefully we'll be lucky with some sunny weather on the beach!
Back to Wales on the 25th and we are going to Rachel's and Phil's wedding on the 28th what we are also really looking forward to!
On the way back we are only stopping in Düsseldorf and we are arriving on the 31th of August!
Long way, huh?

Clever boy - a video by my sister Szilvi, hope it works!

2010-08-13T13:39:00.001+02:00

#!/video/video.php?v=145808965437387&ref=mf

New skill: Tristan is jumping with 2 feet

2010-08-03T10:18:00.002+02:00

Gyomaendrőd

2010-07-25T15:25:00.000+02:00

Cute video

2010-07-24T07:14:00.002+02:00

With Tristan explaining Elen which is his bottle, than we are trying to get her to say her cute new line da da da - not much luck and at the end Tristan starts to sing his favourite song: Happy Birthday! :)

You can also see how skillfull Elen is now with the turning, she is already trying to crawl, it just hasn't happened yet! I think that is when things going to get interesting for the parents!

We have been enjoying the summer recently by the Balaton and will go for a few more places the following weeks, it is so much easier outside the city in this heat!

Happy Birthday Tristan Lloyd!

2010-07-07T21:51:00.006+02:00

Pool party at Noémi's

2010-07-01T23:40:00.001+02:00

Rock on!

2010-06-26T17:43:00.002+02:00

Happy 6 months Elen!

We are ill

2010-06-20T22:37:00.003+02:00

Thanks for this virus and the fever Tristan slept with us for the first time last night for a few hours! It was fun, except when I felt his legs kicking in my stomach and I have realised he took all the space as he was lying across...

Mammy and Daddy's new excercise regime to keep up with us

2010-06-18T20:57:00.006+02:00

Next step: Budapest Half Marathon in September

6 month review

2010-06-11T18:21:00.002+02:00

I know that Elen is not 6 month old yet, but the pediatritan was here yesterday for the 6 month check up and loads of other things are worth to write about.
Weight: 6700 gramms (fair size...)
Length: 63 centimeters (not very long)
Teeting: after a loooot of saliva her first tooth (bottom front left) broke through today
Knowledge: she is turning back to front, playing with the rattles and eaitng everything she can
Feeding: she has started go on a few solids such as pear, banana and apple, which is not her favourite, but the first 2 she can finish a half of! In the coming weeks she will try a few vegetables, carrot and maybe potato etc.!
Sleeping: she sleeps through the night and has about 3 naps a day, virtually after every feeding

While Mum and Dad are in Prague we are having fun!

2010-06-10T20:30:00.005+02:00

Few pictures of the Welsh trip in May

2010-06-02T21:56:00.004+02:00

An international traveller

On the road lovely princess

On the road cool dude

Tristan in the new ball tent

Elen watching the tv

Someone is ticklish!

2010-05-27T21:10:00.002+02:00

Pear tasting

2010-05-25T12:56:00.002+02:00

Who turned off all the lights?

2010-05-20T22:22:00.000+02:00

Protective brother

2010-05-18T22:40:00.003+02:00

And Elen is making her way slowly to Adi's hand, cheeky!

Eating with Barbara

2010-05-15T21:15:00.001+02:00

Playing with the camera

2010-05-15T21:12:00.002+02:00

In the zoo

2010-05-15T21:08:00.001+02:00

Giggle

2010-05-15T20:57:00.002+02:00

When 3 languages meet in a baby's head

2010-05-01T22:20:00.003+02:00

I think it's time to start to note Tristans babytalks as his vocabulary is expanding so quickly, he uses one term for a week than changes it! He even said kutya (hungarian for dog) today, which has always been vau-vau and nothing else. Here are some cute things he says and shows his mixed up little mind:
BIA BIA - labda (H) + pel (W) = ball (E) the welsh version is pronunced with a B
DAU (pronounced DAI) - means two in welsh and whenever he wants to jump off something he says this as he usually counts 1, 2, 3 with his Dad when they playing. But for him, whatever is on something is Dai also! There is a sculpture by us and a part of it is high up, he looks at it seriously and points: Mum, Dai!
HÁP, HÁP - this is quack quack in English, he became the biggest enemy of the pigeons in the neighbourhood, especially when he is on his bike, he chases them and shouts háp háp

She is growing so quickly

2010-04-22T20:10:00.001+02:00

Just like the brother she has found her thumb, no space for dummies any more!

Teething

2010-04-18T20:42:00.000+02:00

Chasing the pigeons

2010-04-18T20:37:00.001+02:00

Waking up in a mood after afternoon nap - quite usual situation

2010-04-17T20:32:00.002+02:00

Visiting work with the kids when the volcanic ash is around

2010-04-17T20:30:00.001+02:00

Bunny, why don't you sing for me?

2010-04-17T20:04:00.002+02:00

Girls defenitely develop quicker

2010-04-17T19:50:00.002+02:00

We were very surprised today, as Elen has turned from her belly to her back, twice actually! Tristan has done this when he was 5 months old. She also started to reach for things and her grab is getting stronger and stronger, soon she can enjoy a rattle! We are amazed, she is not even 4 months!
(for the record recently she gets up at 2 o'clock in the morning, not very well done...)

End of the year kids

2010-04-11T21:06:00.002+02:00

We have been keeping contact with the mothers that shared the same ward. The babies were so cute and patient models, only Elen was crying!
From left to right
Keve (29.12), Míra (29.12), Csenge (28.12), Elen (26.12), Benjámin (28.12)

Long weekend in Zalakaros

2010-04-11T20:13:00.006+02:00

We didn't take the camera, here are just a few pictures I took with my phone!

Cool bro

2010-04-06T20:44:00.002+02:00

Elen's Christening

2010-04-04T13:55:00.005+02:00

Looking pretty

Before and after

Proud Compadres

Happy Easter

2010-04-02T19:49:00.001+02:00

We wish a blessed Easter to everyone (és sok locsolót a magyar jányoknak) !