And here we are—time is flying by, and although I could shed a tear over the passing moments, somehow I’d rather look forward to the ones still to come. And I’m already feeling happy about them…!

This is what a baby looks like when, sometimes, mom really is everything to him 🙂 For example, when we’re waiting for Ruben on our favorite bench before the hairdresser, with a full tummy, after a nap!

This is what a baby looks like when not only the mother is everything to him 🙂

As a little Father’s Day side note, here’s another glimpse into our days with this all-boy family! While Rú was off on his own adventures, after work we headed to the cool branch of the Danube in the city, where Wolfie saw such a large body of water for the very first time. And although he looks just like his dad, his personality is mine, so you can imagine how enchanted he was by the gently rippling water’s surface…!

This year’s Father’s Day was a little more special than the previous ones, because a little baby celebrated his daddy with us too! Those who have been reading this diary for a long time know how much I love books, and I read a lot to Rún from the time he was very small. Unfortunately, however, our most beautiful books are carefully packed away in a warehouse in Vác, so the smell of paper and the beautifully painted pictures are missing from our home—at least if we want to read a book in Hungarian. And the books we’ve downloaded on Kindle feel a little far from our emotional world. So…

I love this little stretch of the Danube riverbank — and not only because Laci officially proposed to me here 🙂 But the best part is this self-service book nook! It’s filled with summer-reading books, and thankfully, with the tourist season in mind, there are also English-language ones. If you take a book, you write it in the notebook by the windowsill, and if you’d like, you can drop a few euros into the bulldog piggy bank. Of course, nobody checks anything, so the book nook’s survival, upkeep, and enjoyment really depend on the visitors. And if you look around, you’ll see just how well this little book island is…

Last week we had a four-day weekend, and Rú’s heart pulled her back home to Hungary. And what is a family supposed to do without their teenager…? We go and do things that Rú wouldn’t enjoy that much anyway, so we don’t have to drag her along, and we get an extra program out of it too. Since we had been planning a trip to Bratislava for a long time, this was the perfect opportunity: it was cloudy in Vienna anyway, while Bratislava was pouring sunshine on us at full force! I had never been there before, so while sightseeing I wanted to grab a coffee somewhere that wasn’t a…