Cub's First Chinese New Year

 

Last time Chinese New year rolled around, I had one week to go before Liam's due date and we were really hoping he would arrive early so he could be born in the very auspicious Year of the Dragon. He came early, but only by one day, so he is a Snake baby. Snakes are reputably charming, intelligent and little mysterious. So far Cub has shown his charm to full force by winning over young and old alike with his ready smile, but his intelligence is there very strongly as well, his little mind is always tick tick ticking away!

I'm sure you can guess Bunny's Chinese horoscope - Rabbit!

Popular and compassionate and emotional describes her very well, but of course she has her own special brand of energy and spirit.

The weekend just gone we celebrated Cub's first Chinese New Year. Bunny and Mr Dandelion made homemade pork and cabbage dumplings, a traditional food for prosperity for the year to come. We also roasted a whole chicken (to represent family togetherness) and served with rice and gai lan. Delicious!

Bunny and Mr Dandelion making dumplings.

Bunny's attempt at a dumpling. It still tasted fine!

Bunny has been trying hard to say the traditional Cantonese greeting of "Gung Hay Fat Choy" (Best wishes for prosperity) to Mr Dandelion's family, with mixed results. She is very cute though and manages a decent "Do Jeh" (thank you) which is better than nothing! Bunny was very excited to wear a Chinese outfit to celebrate and the red and gold look absolutely stunning on her (I'm not biased at all!). Both Bunny and Cub loved receiving their Lai See.

So welcome to the Year of the Horse! Horse years are meant to be filled with adventure and romance, sounds like fun to me!