Sunday, February 6, 2011

Our little ribbon dancer (CNY 2011)

On Friday night we attended a local Chinese New Year celebration.  We look forward to it every year.  It's a lot of fun to meet and chat with other adoptive families and the kids love all the activities. 
This year was extra special because the girls were invited to learn a ribbon dance.  Sarah was a little shy at first, but in "true Sarah fashion", once she saw the ribbons and all the other girls, she was ready to go!

Here she is learning the dance with the teacher.  She just beamed the entire time.  She loved it!  (Sorry some of the photos are blurry/grainy.  I was playing with my camera settings before the party and it wasn't a good idea!)

  The ribbon dancers!  I could hardly hold back the tears when I saw all of these sweet girls together for the first time!
We also learned more about Chinese New Year, how to say "Happy New Year" and how children ask for red envelopes. 
    Logan's red envelope
The gang's almost all here (Justin had an indoor track meet).
       Jason and Sarah love the lion masks and the lion dance, too!


新年快乐
xīn nián kuài lè


8 Kind Words:

Sarah said...

Very fun!!

The Brown Family said...

I'm guessing that Justin was at the Oval? My girls decided to come to CNY instead, and I think that the dancing helped make up their minds. Hillary chose to run last year and was missing from our family pic, too.

Kim

Kristi said...

What a wonderful celebration! Ribbon dances and lion heads for the kids to wear? Much more "hands on" than ours!
And I love Sarah's little shoes. I'm so going to try to find some for my girls while we are in China on this next trip.

jessica said...

That is a great celebration. I love the dancing lions! Hudson went to a celebration here and then came home distraught that I didn't have any Chinese New Year decorations or Ground Hog decorations.

Football and Fried Rice said...

What an awesome celebration!! I love Sarah's red shoes! Your blog makeover looks brilliant as well! Perfect for the New Year all the way around!

lorabelle said...

This looks like so much fun for everyone! I love the idea of dancing with the ribbons and the lions costume. I bet the kids were thrilled! Our CNY celebration isn't until next weekend. We are combining it with Lantern Festival and plan to set off lanterns, but next year I might find some ribbons for dancing. I bet Allie would love that as well!
Sarah truly is darling Gwen!

James, Dawn and Family said...

Looks loke fun!!

Heidi said...

Beautiful, I would have teared up too- such gorgeous girls!