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First Chinese New Year!



We got to celebrate Chinese New Year (or Spring Festival) with friends and families of other Chinese children. Everyone brought an authentic dish from Asia. I opted to adventure out and make pork Lion's Head, a dish from Beijing. YUM-O it was. Rachel was the little cutie pie amidst the tweens and teens of the party making other parents reminisce about their own adoption journeys years ago. She was giving out kisses by the time we left. She gives air "smacks". Awwwwwww.

The New Year festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is often called the Lunar New Year, especially by people in mainland China. 2009 is the year of the Ox which symbolizes prosperity through fortitude and hard work. Among several celebration activities we let the children exchange lucky red envelopes followed by a lion parade. Randy had to try on the lion's head (hilarious since that's what we "made" for dinner).

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