Saturday, January 31, 2009

Chinese New Year Banquet

The Tacoma Families with Children from Asia held their Chinese New Year's banquet at North China Gardens tonight. There were about 70 of us there, including Kaeli and MaMa and Halli, Kaeli's Saturday babysitter. After eating, the kids started a lion dance. The girl in red with white tights and red shoes at the tail of the lion is our Kaeli!
Here Kaeli is leading her own Chinese conga line. She and her friends decided to do their own Lion dance through the restaurant and had 7 or 8 girls in their line, all giggling and smiling. My camera wasn't fast enough to catch her!
The group photo - sort of! It's hard getting 30 or so excited hyper happy girls and boys to stand still for photos by all the adoring parents! Kaeli is to the right, in her long red qi pao dress and "shine red shoes". NaiNai and YeYe bought the beautiful dress for her in New York City when they were visiting JioJio. She's worn it for the first time this week, and will probably not fit in it again - she's growing like bamboo!!!
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