Happy Lunar New Year!

While we hibernate here in the snow, gluing doilies and red construction paper and popping candy hearts, half the world is having a two-week party. Happy Lunar New Year, everyone! We went to a wonderful party last night with our adoption friends in the area. The Yarbroughs hosted, and all the kids and adults had a great time visiting and eating dumplings and Tso's chicken. There was a proliferation of black, spiky pigtails like you've never seen! All the little girls are so beautiful. They were pretty interactive with one another, more so than last year, when most of them were still babies. I love to see them all together, and to share the common bond that we parents have. There were also plenty of older siblings. It's fun for them to see that other kids have the same kind of family they do. I really enjoy celebrating Chinese New Year. Having Xanthe has given us a few more holidays to observe, which is never a bad thing! When we got home from the party last night, we discovered Grandma and Grandpa had left valentines for all of us! Thanks! We are so lucky to have such fun grandparents. They always make holidays special. Well, they make every day special by loving us so much. We love you!
Yesterday was also Freestone's un-birthday at school. He took toy cars for the boys and lip gloss for the girls, and came home with a crown. He was so funny over the weekend. He fell in love with Golda's friend, and exhibited the same symptoms an older boy (or man!) would, upon being attracted to a girl. He strutted around saying how much he did NOT like this girl. He ripped up a paper plate and threw it on the ground to impress her. He told me he had to go to Coco's to "get his muscles." (They have weights and a work-out room.) Golda's friend treated him very kindly. He returned the favor by telling her he was in love with his imaginary friend, Emma. (She lives on his ceiling fan.) Boys never change, do they?