Happy Birthday Dinara!!!

Well it has sure been a long time since we updated...sorry guys. I just got so busy at school and getting my consulting stuff all sorted out. Well we have had a few more milestones...Dinara's second birthday was on the 17th and we had a good ole time spoiling her. We went to Fudrucker's for breakfast, had veggie soup (her favorite) for lunch and Mommy made chicken nuggets, broccoli and tater tots for supper (another of her faves). We didn't do the birthday cupcakes until the next day...too late for her to eat them after supper. Also, it took my girl almost two full weeks to finally get all her christmas presents open. She loved them all and has a wonderful time playing with all of her new toys. I have to now go through her toys and see what we are going to keep out and what we are going to put away for the next baby. Dinara is speaking more words but no sentences yet. She also babbles all the time now. Once she starts to speak I think it will be a never ending conversation...just like with me. She loves to say Shoe and Snow. She also says Shark when ever Bruce shows up in Finding Nemo. She says Tree, Uh-oh, Cold, and Wow frequently now...in the right context too. Whenever she gets near things that are hot she says ow ow. Very cute. Trying to ask her if her feet are hot was funny yesterday as she went ow ow and blew on them.

What else to tell you...ummmm...I am a consultant for Imperial Oil now. All the forms have been signed and I start work this weekend. It will be lots of fun and I get paid too!

Oh! We have all the parts to our Disneyland Vacation booked now but are sad that our friend Bridget (Aunty Bridget) will only be able to join us for 1.5 days...work got hectic for her. Well we appreciate the time we will see her and the fact that she took care of our accomodations with her Disney Vacation Club points...which we are going to buy into while down there. We can't wait to go to Disney and show Dinara everything. Aunty Bridget sent Dinara (and us too) some presents and they arrived on Tuesday. Dinara now has a Finding Nemo musical snowglobe (in her bedroom), a Nemo purse, the invitation from Disneyland inviting Press to the opening of the Finding Nemo ride (which has the seagulls saying Mine, Mine, Mine when you open it), a set of Disney DVDs that are specifically of things in the Disney Parks, a stitch collectors pin, Disney Christmas ornament, and two Richard Scary books; for Mommy a wine magnet made out of Pennsylvanian Slate (too cool), and scrapbooking stuff too. Thank you for all of it you are really too generous with us. We can't wait to see Aunty Bridget in February.

A quick thanks to Aunty Bonnie and Uncle Phil for the Winnie the Pooh dial phone for Dinara. She loved it.

Enjoy the Pics...there are lots.


Daddy and Dinara reading together. Note what Andrew is reading...


Dinara opening one of her last presents from Grama and Grampa...a Winnie the Pooh Glow toy. It plays music too.


Dinara opening one of her last presents from Nana and Opa...a musical dancing dog. It plays classical music. Very nice.


Uncle Craig chasing Dinara with her present from Uncle John...we call him Big Ben (the bear not Uncle Craig).


Dinara making a silly face. I included this just cause it was a fun thing to do.


Daddy and Dinara dancing to Disney music. Fun, fun, fun.


Birthday girl in her birthday outfit. She is waving hi to the camera. So cute. She is growing up so fast.


Daddy watching over Dinara as she runs around at Fuddruckers. They know her by name there.


Dinara trying to feed Mommy. So cute!


Daddy and Dinara getting Birthday kisses.


Dinara with her new Mickey Mouse Clubhouse play set.


Dinara with her new Mickey Mouse Bathtime play set.


Dinara with her Bath time set and her new Mickey Car...she has a Minnie car too.


Dinara opening her tea set from Grama and Grampa.


Dinara with her new tea set.

The next four photos are of Dinara and Mommy having a little tea party.









Dinara hugging the doggy book that Great Uncle Dale gave her for her birthday.


Dinara in her birthday chair. It is a recliner too. Walmart rocks!


Dinara in the fancy dress that Grama and Grampa bought her for Christmas. I thought it might be nice to play dress up for a while.


Dinara eating her birthday supper.


Dinara with her birthday cupcake.


Dinara enjoying eating her birthday cupcake.


Dinara still enjoying her cupcake.


Messy smile girl.


Dinara playing with her Nemo purse.


Dinara's musical Nemo snowglobe. It is awesome and didn't freeze in transport.


Dinara pointing at her new snowglobe and yelling "MO"...which is what she says for Nemo.


Dinara with her Nemo purse. She drags it all over the house.


Another Nemo purse shot...oh and Dinara is there too.

Well bye for now.