Happy New Year....February 7th marked the beginning of the Year of the Rat, the first year in the Chinese Zodiac. Naturally, this called for celebration with our playgroup friends. So on Thursday, we got together with over 60 friends for long noodles and other traditional Chinese dishes. The girls donned their QI PAOS (traditional Chinese dresses), and the boys wore their Chinese pajamas. The celebration was marked by crafts, story time, red envelopes, and ended with our annual dragon parade and fireworks. The fireworks are actually accomplished by rolling out big rolls of bubble wrap for the girls to then jump on. The popping noise really sounds like fireworks going off. Our friends, the Duncans, came down for the big event. And we had lots of fun getting to see our friends. Then we did it all over again Friday night with a little over 40 friends from our school-age playgroup. We are blessed to have so many adoptive families to share these experiences with....and for these families to truly be genuine friends. We are blessed.
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