Dinah the Dinosaur

Allow me to introduce you to Dinah, the Dinosaur.

Dinah has been an important part of our lives for the last two months or so. It started when two random events serendipitously collided. The first was that I was packing up some boxes for Operation Christmas Child and including a rubber dinosaur I got on clearance at Target in each one. There was one dinosaur left over that just laid around in our room for awhile because I'm lazy like that. Around this same time, Huston watched an episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse with a triceratops named Dinah. After watching the episode and seeing the rubber dinosaur in our room (who also happened to be a triceratops) he quickly adopted her as his own.

(This is Dinah doing tricks for the camera - like standing on her back and on her tail).
A few things you should know about Dinah:

Dinah has also been called "Baby Dinosaur" and "Baby Squishy Dinosaur."

Dinah shows her various emotions - she wags her tail when she's happy and her horns droop down when she's sad.

Dinah's emotions often line up with Huston's emotions. For example, this morning Huston was grouchy and told me, "Mommy, Dinah's mad at you."

Dinah makes a unique sound, difficult to transcribe, but which goes something like, "Buut-aah," though not exactly. I could not figure out where this sound came from, until I saw the Mickey episode again and realized the dinosaur on the show makes that exact sound.

Dinah likes to be silly. She likes you to ask her to say "Buut-aah," and sometimes she'll say it, sometimes she'll be silent, sometimes she'll squeak, and sometimes she'll say ribbit. You never know what mood she's going to be in.

My boy and his dinosaur - may you have many adventures together.