Amelia celebrated her first American Chinese New Year recently with two fun parties. The first party was with our close friends at our favorite Chinese restaurant. We love going there because the people that work there are from Chengdu, and they love Amelia. When we go in, they run to her and say "AiChun!!!". We handed out traditional red envelopes to Amelia's friends (with a dollar inside!) and let our friends sample some little candies we bought at our local Asian market. We had a grand time!
Our second party was with our local group of families that have adopted internationally. Our group has children adopted from many countries, but typically, only the families with children from the Asian countries celebrate the special New Year. We had the party at Lilly (from Vietnam) and Kunal's (from India) house. Everyone brought a dish from their child's country. Amelia and I took fried lotus root. Yes, I fried them myself!!! We played with our friends and even got to play outside since the weather was nice.
Our group has several "big" kids, who are sweet and funny. We also have lots of toddler-aged children. In fact, there are at least 4 other 2 year old girls from China in our group. They weren't all at the party, but if we ever get them all together, won't it be fun?
Amelia's newest tricks: (1) she hides things behind her back and says "where'd it go?" and then laughs like a loon when she pulls it out from behind her back;
(2) She says "I love you" - to Elmo, but not to her Mama; (3) she tells to "wah hair" with "shapoopoo"; and (4) she likes "choo choo" trains, and she thinks everything that makes lots of noise (firetrucks, etc.) are choo choos.
Yes, we are having FUN!
Amy & Amelia AiChun
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