We had such a fun time celebrating Chinese New Year.
In the morning, Adam and Mia cuddled on a chair and watched you tube videos of different dragon dances and celebrations of Chinese New Year. Mia seemed to really enjoy this.
Then we had a very unChinese like breakfast of chocolate chip pancakes. But, Mia likes them now (she didn't when she first came home). As the kids were finishing their breakfast we had them one by one wish us a Happy New Year at which point they were each given a red envelope. This was the first red envelope for Ryan, Ashy and Austin but not for Mia. In her photo album that we had sent over to China her foster mom added a few more pictures. One of the pictures shows Mia with a red envelope with 100 Yuan inside (equivalent to about 17-18 US dollars). Unfortunately, we weren't as generous. Each kid got $10 from us. Fortunately, I don't think Mia noticed. At least this year.
After church we met up with our adoption group for a real fun celebration! I wish I had gotten a picture of the food. So... much... good.... Chinese food. And everything (except for what we brought- we chickened out and grabbed sweet and sour chicken and general Tso's chicken from our local Chinese place to bring) was homemade. We will need to get some recipes and some cooking lessons. It was so delicious. Even the kids were commenting on how yummy everything was.
One of the families in our group actually bought and owns this Lion costume. It was the coolest thing. The kids had so much fun with it because it was so interactive! The kids were able to follow it around the room, touch, play with it, drop things into its mouth only to have it spit the item back out. Lots of fun!
In the morning, Adam and Mia cuddled on a chair and watched you tube videos of different dragon dances and celebrations of Chinese New Year. Mia seemed to really enjoy this.
Then we had a very unChinese like breakfast of chocolate chip pancakes. But, Mia likes them now (she didn't when she first came home). As the kids were finishing their breakfast we had them one by one wish us a Happy New Year at which point they were each given a red envelope. This was the first red envelope for Ryan, Ashy and Austin but not for Mia. In her photo album that we had sent over to China her foster mom added a few more pictures. One of the pictures shows Mia with a red envelope with 100 Yuan inside (equivalent to about 17-18 US dollars). Unfortunately, we weren't as generous. Each kid got $10 from us. Fortunately, I don't think Mia noticed. At least this year.
Ryan likes this new tradition
Mia's first red envelope from us
Ashy and her big smile
Austin (not a great picture) but had to include him as well
One of the families in our group actually bought and owns this Lion costume. It was the coolest thing. The kids had so much fun with it because it was so interactive! The kids were able to follow it around the room, touch, play with it, drop things into its mouth only to have it spit the item back out. Lots of fun!
More Red Envelopes were given to the kids at the party. There was $1 inside these envelopes. How fun!!
Happy Chinese New Year!!!!
This is soooo neat to see. We adopted thru AWAA and brought our daughter home March 2012. I wanted to know about older Child adoption, love seeing it lived out.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it hard to communicate with her? Is she starting to speak English? Your family looks very lovely and your kids look very happy to have another sister with them. Mia is lucky to have a found a family in you. :)
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It was very hard to communicate for the first couple of months. We used google translator and lots of charades. Mia has been home 3 months now and can carry on simple conversations in English and she understands most of what we say. Kids learn new languages so fast and it has been cool to see it first hand.
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