February 7 was Chinese New Year. In China, this is perhaps the biggest holiday of the year. It is also called the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival. In China, people travel for long distances to spend the holiday with family. The celebrations last for days and feature great food and lots of fireworks. 2008 is the year of the rat. (By the way, Mia was born in the year of the dog.)
We celebrated Chinese New Year for the first time in our house. On Thursday, I took a vacation day to take Mia to the CNY celebration for her Families with Children from China preschool playgroup. There were 30 or 40 children there, and all the kids were wearing their adorable Chinese embroidered outfits. The older preschoolers did craft projects like decorating Chinese lanterns. Mia had a great time running around and eating. She had fun up until the group photo. Then she got upset because some other little girl tried to take something from her. It was just about time for Mia's nap, so after snapping this photo, Sarah and I scooped her up and took her home.
Tonight, we took Mia to P.F. Chang's. I'm pretty sure it is the first time we've taken her out for Chinese food in America. She had a great time, though as usual her parents had to eat in shifts to keep her from throwing food and otherwise misbehaving. (I can assure those of you who have been waitpersons at some point in your life that before we leave the table, we always clean up the floor around her AND we leave a big tip.)
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