I Should Have Been Chinese

My favorite craft blog, Little Birdie Secrets, has posted a few ideas about celebrating Chinese New Year. With little thought, I decided to celebrate it also! We invited a few friends over and partied, (but not too hard.) I made Chinese Egg Rolls from this recipe except I added some green onions. It was so easy and tasted SO YUMMY!!! That was my first time making them, but definitely not my last. The Sims brought Sweet and Sour Chicken and the Gardners brought rice and fortune cookies. A tasty Chinese dinner.

Cadence and Carolyn-Kate enjoyed playing together.
Sneaky little Cooper grabbed his container of food while I ate a bite of my food and dumped it all over himself! Look at those big mischievious eyes trying to say "I don't know how this happened. I definitely didn't do it!" The Sims lived in China for a year teaching English. They brought some funky red Chinese decorations and told us how to pose if we were Chinese tourists - except they said we shouldn't smile.

I think I will make this a yearly tradition. Next year, the party will be bigger and better

(more authentic.) I will do more research on this holiday. I had more things planned, but I got to babysit a friend's son and didn't get to plan as much as I wanted. It is the year of the Ox. I should have been Chinese!