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Happy Chinese New Year!

We had some fun celebrating Chinese New Year yesterday at a new friends' house.  We met a family through our social worker.  This family is new to Bend and has a 5 year old girl (Leeloo)  from China and an almost 3 year old boy (Tamirat)from Ethiopia.  They invited us over to their place for a Chinese New Year Celebration on sunday after church so Aaron, the girls and I went. (The boys wanted some free time at home so they didn't go)   The kids colored Dragon masks, drank tea, ate dumplings, egg rolls, fried rice and ended with "being a dragon" and a dragon pinata.





 Anna drinking tea

Selah drinking tea

Anna's 1st swing at the dragon pinata

Selah's 1st swing at the dragon pinata

All the kids going for CANDY!


 
Selah and her dragon mask



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KellyB said…
Love the new look to your blog! Glad to see you posting...Happy CNY!! KellyB
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 1:08:00 PM PST
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