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We got to Budapest safe and sound.
The journey was better than any of us expected. Woke Lileeva around 0445 am, got her changed quickly and fed her in the cab on the way to Luton. There we had bit of a trouble though, only cause I left my phone in my back pocket while walking through security, so we beeped in. Therefore both me and Lileeva got full body searched haha! Shame Lee's phone was going through the X-ray at the time, so no photographic proof.
No problems of taking more than 100 ml of liquid with us, I just had to taste them.
Flying was amazing, Lileeva didn't cry, didn't even moan! We fed her while taking off, then she was playing with Pepper Pig and that's about it, even dropped off before landing.

Left the cold, rainy London and arrived to the cloudless, sunny Budapest in roughly 30*C. Boom!
My mum and nan was overwhelmed to say the least.
We weren't planning on going out the same day, but the weather was awesome so we hit up Arriba, the mexican restaurant I used to work at and even my long lost close friend Szabolcs has turned up to see us for half an hour.
I once again got proven how fucked Hungarian's mentality are. While me and Lee used to get dirty looks regarding our tattoos and piercings, when we're with an adorable baby, at least 5 random people chats us up daily on public transport, to congratulate and assure us how gorgeous Lileeva is.
On Thursday we went out too, even though it supposed to be our stay in, nana-nanny-Lileeva bonding day. We hit up Margit Island with my mum, rode the bringóhintó (A Flinstones like 3, 6 or more seater bike thing.) had some food then me and Lee went to the other Arriba to show off the lady to other friends of mine.

Friday we met Alma, who's my oldest friend of 13 years and had a buff BBQ outdoors.
Today we supposed to meet with Lee's old workmate Zoltán, who not long ago moved back to Budapest but he hasn't got in touch with us, so just wandered in the city instead.
The weather just cooled down now, it's quite windy and possibly will be rainy by tomorrow so I really don't know what the plan is.
All in all I'm quite greatful, don't think Lileeva loved this heat much, even though we got her a sunhat and she wasn't wearing vests under her tiny dresses, she still looked hot most of the times. Upside is that she loved taking her milk cold! Eases my life big times, will see if she carries on with it in a cooler weather too.
She was only fussed the first night cause of the new atmosphere after a long ass day, and to be honest, not all of us are comfortable sleeping different places. We let her sleep with us in the bed, but she's fine now in the travel cot, luckily.
Apart from that, I'm happy to say that she copes well, getting more and more used to everything and everyone and we even managed to stay in routine, which was a big worry of mine. Yay!

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I really hate establishing new routine. This screaming puts me on the edge, big times.
Lileeva hasn't been drinking her bottles lately (4 x 210 ml), kept leaving half of them, apart from the evening and night time ones. Mind it, she was playing up with those too.
So with Saturday I put her on 3 pureed meals and 3 x 240 ml bottles. Needless to say, she's quite fussed. Doesn't yet realised after a meal there's no bottle in the next hour, but in the next third hour.
Of course I can't entirely blame her, could be my fault too, since I'm not sure how much I'm supposed to feed her with. She is on the chubby side if one can say it, and knowing both her parents, she might be just as greedy as us, wouldn't want to let me know when she's full. Could that actually be possible?
One can only try and hope.
The hardest part of all has already been done (The sleeping apart-sleeping night time-eating regularly madness.) until potty training anyway.

My friend Nicol used to be a nanny and she gave me some information on flying with a baby. She as well as we planned said, it's best to feed Lileeva when taking off, so her ears less likely to pop and hopefully she'd fall straight asleep after. Had a look online and apparently this 100 ml madness doesn't include baby milk and food. Thanks fuck for that! Therefore I only have to find a café with nice staff whom willing to give out free boiling water before boarding. The cabincrew apparently willing to heat up carton milks too so that's landing sorted as well.
We will be popping out for a quick shopping tomorrow, see if we can buy one of those wintery earmuffs for Lileeva, to try and ease her on the incoming information and noise. Don't think she'll appreciate the buzzing engine for hours.
I started to pack as well. You wouldn't imagine how much shit you need for a week holiday with a baby! Triple amount of clothes in case she pukes all over them, nappies, food, sterilizer, bath stuff... Of course this all can be purchased in Hungary too, the joke is that it's fucking balkan yet everything costs more! Ah well...
Can't wait really. Hope the weather remains good and she can wear all her summer dresses. So far England didn't prove much of an improvement spring-weather wise.

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I really don't know what's been happening the past couple of weeks.
Everything seems so important at the time, but when I get here, they all seem to be forgotten.
The major thing is that Lileeva is sitting pretty much by herself now. She still wobbles a bit, and throws herself back or front (Heavy head, she has.) but she is kind of stable now.
I put her on follow on milk a week ago, she's doing good. Doesn't poo 4 times a day anymore hah! She didn't like the 6 months+ bottle teats though, I reckon it has something to do with the quick flow, it always drips in her mouth, even without sucking and it must've annoyed her.
She's also well interested in finger food now, last week she stole Alfie's biscuit! (Then chocked on it, of course, making me close to having a heart attack.)

 Since Lileeva is getting bigger (Almost 6 months!) we went out with Lee and bought her some nice grows and clothes. Believe it or not, this is the first time we had to buy essential stuffs, thanks to our friends and Louise. Surprisingly we ended up with quite a bit of pink gear in our bags. Ah well, what can one do, that seems to be her favourite colour so far, always chooses to cuddle the pink teddies and so.
We started to use the nappy cake nappies on her, which are Wilkinson's own brand (Meaning: Cheap nappies.) but she doesn't look too fussed. Only using it for sleeping and when we take her out though. My only problem is that it ain't stretchy but hey, as long as she's happy in them, and has no nappy rash... Still, Lee doesn't want to chance it, so we will keep buying Pampers, after all we don't use much and we don't mind paying for quality.
By the way Laura said, as she heard, if your water breaks in Mothercare or Asda, you are getting free nappies for life! Damn, should've been hanging out there more...
We are off for a holiday next Wednesday, started to look forward to it. Apart from the flying. That one screaming baby on the flight, that always one screaming baby on the flight! I'm dreading it.
The main issue (Besides feeding from a bottle.) when we are out, is the sleeping situation. She's only able to fall asleep when laying flat, alone, preferably covered with a blanket. (I'm well happy about this independence though, on a long run.) Now, it's alright, when we are in Wetherspoon, on a couch, after a 20 minutes over-tired screaming session she gets used to the noise and can fall asleep. But clearly won't be alright on a flight where she has to be sitting up for almost 3 hours. Sigh.

We keep getting chatted up on the street, by the way. Random people pay compliments, how gorgeous she is, and oh her eyes! She is lucky to have the good bit of genes of ours, I suppose.

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The second tooth has cut through today! Still well amused, she's only 5 months 1 week after all.

She also discovered a new favourite position as one can see.

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I took Lileeva to baby massage on Wednesday where the lady introduced something new; the treasure basket. Lileeva was going mad for it! The whole idea behind it is to put all different shapes and textures in it (Pretty much anything.) what they can investigate. Anything apart from plastic, cause that's what most toys are made of.
So I've created our own. So far we've got a big metal bar blade (Classy!), wood incense holder, rubber gloves, jar lid, washing sponge, shiny fabric devil horn hair band, plastic formula spoon, cardboard drink coaster, colourful paper muffin cases, glass spice holder and a metal absinthe spoon, all this in a corn basket with wood handles.

So far Lileeva is more interested in Kitty. She keeps reaching out for her, leaning forward to touch her. The cat has none of it. Can't blame her though, Lileeva only started to use her hands and grabs everything with her strong little grip. When she does manage to get to Puddy, she usually ends up with a serious amount  of hair between her fingers. Miracle that the cat didn't yet bite her.
That little furball will be in serious trouble, once Lileeva masters the tricks of crawling.

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Lee put the guitar up on Lileeva's wall so that's done too!
Walls in this block are super crap, impossible to screw them (Nuclear attack - meet me at mine!) but the nails don't stay in, in fact the wall falls off with them too, leaving nice holes, with a perfect view to the bricks.

I took Lileeva out yesterday in the sling, facing out. It's only recommended for babies over 6 months but she's really good with her neck, and seems frustrated after a while when she has to face me. She's obviously looking around, but gets pissed off after an hour or so as it's usually more than her neck can handle.
I also didn't want to introduce everything at the same time. I want to carry her on my back in the Manduca (Since she's getting heavier.) so that needs a little practice too in the next month or so.
Anyways, she loved it outwards.

I got a 'Baby on board' badge, will pop it on the carrier. Just for the sake of it. People do tend to give up their seats for us though, well surprising after the hassle and lots of standing on public transport I went through while I was pregnant. Must be something to do with obese people, I didn't stand out much with the bump, hah!

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Alright, I'm hopeless. Lileeva was staring at my toast the other morning so I gave her a bite. She gave me a face then chew and swallowed it with bit of a cough. She spat the second one out.
Now the same thing happened today, so gave her a bit again. She was reaching out for the second dose which she grabbed with her hand and put it in her mouth! Just what she done with the sippy cup 20 minutes later! I swear she's going to be ready for finger food very soon.

I'm making mixed food now, will try her on a few, then going on jars. Easier. Don't want to give her food poison with making the meaty ones too raw or something.
I got her weight today as well, 6.95 kg ~ 15.3 lbs absolutely average. She has michelin man arms and fat roll around her pits so we got a bit worried but she's fine luckily. With Lee's words: 'I didn't say she was overweight. I said she looked fat!'
I kind of measured her too, she's around 68-70 cm ~ 26.8-27.6 inch so she's O.K. that way too.
All in all, she's a happy baby and that what matters to us.

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Belated lucky Friday the 13th and happy fifth month to my gorgeous little girl.