More New Year celebrating

Another fun filled day of Year of the Tiger celebration.

Year of the Tiger

Happy New Year! We celebrated in style with our Families of the China Moon group. We shared a meal, we made red lanterns, we ran, we flirted, we posed for photos and we had our own Lion Parade complete with one happy Lion head!
I had a mini culture clash today when I went to the Chinese restaurant to pick up our dinner. I was thrilled to see all the American couples enjoying the Chinese New Year all dressed in the lucky color red. It wasn't until the restaurant owner wished me a "Happy Valentines" and I wished her a "Happy New Year" that I realized the red was dual purpose today...what a great double celebration day.

Van and Valentines

We are starting the Valentine celebrations early around here since we are snowed in AGAIN! Running out of indoor fun so time to enjoy goodies from our Aunt Christina and Aunt Beth...Thank you!!

Time to Sing

Snow day #3...time to sing, to dance, to play trains, to pretend, to dress up...there is time to do it all and we like to time ourselves having all this fun...

ABC song from Scott M on Vimeo.

Snow Day 2010

Yes, again...hard to believe but we've got another foot of snow in our yard and we are enjoying every minute of it!!

Snow Sledding! from Scott M on Vimeo.

Mystery Reader Day

What a big surprise for Van...Daddy came to school as the mystery reader...preschool is fun!!

Mystery Reader from Scott M on Vimeo.

"Why, Why and Why"

Yes, the day has come already...I thought for sure we'd have more time to prepare for it, we'd study lots of interesting fact books, we'd quiz each other on trivia, we'd be so excited to finally hear it...but instead it went something like this...
Mommy-"Van, please pick up Howie off this restaurant floor"
Van-"Why mommy?"
Mommy-momentarily stunned into silence..."because it's dirty"
Van-"Why mommy?"
Mommy-suddenly realizing it's not just a trick question...he's really asking it. "Because people might have dropped food on it"
Van-"Why mommy?"
Mommy-"Because they were messy"
Van-"Why mommy?"
So you get the picture...the "why" phase begins, the tough questions are right around the corner. We better get the cliff notes on useless facts and trivia now. I have a feeling this kid isn't going to accept "because I'm the mommy" as his answer.