Chinese New Year also means receiving Ang Pow's (or giving them once you're married!). So... Graham got his first red packet from Daddy yesterday!
Obviously, he doesn't know what it all means yet. But when I was a kid, we loved CNY because we would always end up with so much money!!! Although as we got older, the money would always be "recycled". My mom would somehow almost always run out of cash and she would have to "borrow" some from us to give out to the other kids.Let's see how much Daddy put in the Ang Pow:
What?!? Only a buck?!
Daddy said $1 for 1st Chinese New Year. Hmm... I suppose it doesn't really matter because Graham was more interested in playing with (and chewing on) the red packet anyway!
By the way, I read online somewhere about giving infants boiled baby carrots. The carrots are small enough for them to hold on to and soft enough to chew - which I thought was an excellent idea!!! So,... here was attempt #1:
It might be a little while before we try it again. Although, he LOVES his pureed carrots with cereal. Maybe it's because the baby carrots were cold and it didn't taste as sweet as the pureed carrots. I pureed some green beans yesterday. I took a little taste and they don't really taste all that great. We'll see what happens when he has those tomorrow!
And oh! I forgot to mention - you're suppose to eat long noodles during the New Year - for long life. So I decided to take on the task of making homemade Chinese noodles. After kneading the dough for a while (probably 20+ minutes), I was unable to achieve the dough consistency required to "pull" it. So I ended up just using the pasta maker to make spaghetti noodles instead, which actually turned out really yummy! But anyhow, the next day when I woke up, my abs were really sore and I was wondering why. After pondering about it for a little bit, I finally figured it out. All that dough kneading made my abs sore! Haha... I had to laugh about it. Seriously, talk about working out your core. Who would have thought! :-D
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