Happy Chinese New Year!!

We attended our first CNY party on Saturday and had a great time. As usual, Kyle was reluctant to go, Paige was a little reluctant but her love of the new traditional Chinese pink dress overrode her fear of meeting new people and Danny, as usual, went with the flow, was happy and smiling most of the time. He loved the drums, dragon dance and taking people 's name tages and trying to eat them.




I purposefully volunteered to help with games or crafts later in the event thinking they would all be clinging to us but P & K quickly got over their fears or going someplace new once they saw games with prises. It does not matter what the prises are they just like to win something!




Danny was probably the youngest one there and the only crawler but I was happy to see a few other boys from Taiwan and South Korea a little older than him. As usual the event was full of adorable little girls in their beautiful traditional dresses.




The e-mails for the event included a note saying to wear their traditional garb etc. I had bought the kids matching dragon t-shirts to wear but felt like Paige would probably want to wear a dress like the other girls but was not sure where to get one on short notice. Then while in Las Vegas last weekend, I saw a stand on Freemont Street selling them. I probably spent more than I needed to, but I purchased one for Paige. I looked at boy outfits for Danny but knowing he did not care what he was wearing, I passed on that. In the end, Kyle did not wear his matching t-shirt but I was not really surprised.




Ed and I enjoyed talking to the other adoptive parents and watching the kids play. This is the fourth event we have attended over the last 8 months so we are starting to see some familiar faces and enjoy catching up (as much as you can with three kids going in different directions).




I need to find out who made some spring rolls with cilantro and noodles in them. If it was you, please e-mail me the recipe!




Thanks again to the mom's who organized this terrific event! Here are a few photos. Kyle is in the stage where he dislikes the camera so his pics are very limited.