4 posts tagged “family”

Sarah's baby shower

Sep 29, 2009
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My niece Sarah celebrated her first month over the weekend.

I swear she feels weightless in these arms that are so accustomed to Luca....

baby Sarah

2 other pics from the day!

my folks' grandchildren

Luca stroking Sarah's head!!! soooo cute!!!

hello there!

Sep 12, 2009
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My little niece was born 31 August this year. Visited my cousin and newborn baby Sarah. This is the new addition.

Luca... we've forgotten how small you used to be! And you're no longer the baby of the family!

welcome to the family, Sarah! You've got lovely eyes!

Luca, Nanny Kim...she took care of you too during your 1st month

2 boys looking at 1 girl!

I've heard of how hectic some of my friends' Chinese New Year visitations can get; starting as early as 8am and visiting as many as 6 relatives' homes... all in a day! And if kids are in the picture, there'll be lots of logistics arrangements to be taken care of, like special food (if the kids are below 1 year), diapers, new sets of clothes for after bath at relatives' homes, toys... and I'm pretty sure that's not all!

I must consider myself extremely lucky as we've never needed to visit more than 3 places during chu-yi (初一); the first day of the Lunar month. All relatives will gather where the eldest and most senior member of the family lives (and since my grandpa stays with my folks, that will be my family!), so it's basically a 1-stop bai nian (拜年).

Our first stop on 初一 was my father-in-law's house. Aunty Chun even prepared the Henghua's traditional main xian (面线) for us!

with father-in-law and Aunty Chun

Henghua's mian sian

We'll then visit my maternal Grandparents, and have a healthy steamboat lunch!

we started on the steamboat lunch!

steamboat lunch

This year, we managed to sneak back home for a late afternoon nap!!!! Gosh.... did I mention how sleepy I can get at this advance stage of my pregnancy? Nothing beats freshening up and preparing for the last stop for dinner at my folks' place and some friendly gambling through the night!

all set to bai nian!

My Lunar week (Part 2) - reunion

Feb 11, 2008
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Had a very sumptious reunion dinner at my father-in-law's place last Wednesday. Homecooked food rocks! Thanks to my mother-in-law and Aunty Chun! Prepare to drool!