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A quick break from Anna’s photos, here we have a picture taken of Balzhan and Dr Natalya on Balzhan’s xxth birthday. We had a few drinks, ordered in a few pizzas, and their children (Ilda and Sveta) played on the Xbox. I wasn’t too drunk, full or over protective 🙂

Dr Natalya And Balzhan The Birthday Girl

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Aug 24 2009

Magic Oil

Category: Friends — ChrisM @ 1:17 am

It is ChrisD’s birthday on Wednesday, and I had thought about sending over a bottle of his favourite “Magic Oil”. Now it isn’t marketed as a weight loss aid specifically, more for cuts, grazes, burns etc, however when he visited us a few years back, he had stomach problems. As the oil listed this as one of the ailments it could treat, he decided to give it a try.
Without going into too much detail, he was stuck in the bathroom a whole day, and eventually emerged looking a lot lighter, both in weight and facial colour. Anyway, as sending a glass bottle through international mail might not result in a satisfactory ending, I decided not to risk it. I’ll just have to bring some with me the next time we’re in Britain.

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Aug 21 2009

Anna is six months old today. …

Category: Personal,Tweets — ChrisM @ 12:48 pm

Anna is six months old today. Six! How is that possible? Happy Birthday Anna, and thank you for all the joy you have brought into our lives.

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Aug 21 2009

One Two Hundredth Of A Century!

Category: Anna's Photos,Personal — ChrisM @ 10:55 am

Yes, back on the 21st of August, it really had been a whole six months since Anna was born, and turned our lives around for ever (in a good way). Irina’s parents, Walton and Assel and Igor & Natalya all popped round for the birthday girl’s celebratory meal (I’m assuming these events will gradually encompass a little more comprehension for the date’s importance in future years for Anna). Irina cooked another superb meal, and everyone seemed to have a good time.

: Babushka, Walton (with new goatee) And Anna On Our Couch

: The Proud Parents, The Six Month Old Anna And Walton

: The Sofa Again. Oh, and Anna, Natalya And Igor

From this point on, Anna will no longer be 1/60 of my age – the gap will be shrinking (proportionately speaking)!

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Aug 20 2009

Happy 45th Birthday Dude

Category: Friends,Personal — ChrisM @ 3:53 am

You don’t look a day over 40.
OK, maybe he isn’t quite there yet, but all other subtle attempts to get him to react to posts on this site have failed, so I’m hoping insulting him on this most happy of days will get DaveG to actually respond in one form or another.

Happy Birthday DaveG

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Aug 12 2009

Third Snap Happy Day In A Row

Category: Anna's Photos,Personal — ChrisM @ 2:23 am

A day after Irina’s Mum’s birthday, (so that is the 12th of August. In case you’ve forgotten, I don’t really have some OCD thing going on with dates, it is just that I’ll eventually be altering the dates on any posts with Anna photos in them, for later importing to her blog), I think Aunty Sveta and the rest of the family from that area in Kazakhstan were leaving. Anna had coped very well with all the attention from lots of new faces the night before, and continued to impress us all with her willingness to be the parcel in a game of pass-the-parcel once more (hugs were much in demand).