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Sunday, September 21, 2008
The Moon Festival
Our mooncakes may have been confiscated by customs, but we would still celebrate the moon festival. Last Sunday, with Chinese lanterns hung, Sinclair got to meet more of her family. Grammy Stockard (Matt's mom) and Boo-boo, Grammy Armijo and Poppy (Anita's parents), Aunty Amber (Anita's sister) with cousins Alicia and Josy, and Great Grams and Gramps (Anita's paternal grandparents) all came over for tea and samples of Chinese baked goods. There was green tea and red bean cake, pastries of green bean, pork jerky, and date with walnut, and some other more "normal" treats. We showed everyone all of our mementos from China, including Sinclair's adoption decree and other documents. Brevin and Elijah put on a wonderful Chinese sword fight demonstration. Sinclair opened presents. It was a great time for everyone just to see Sinclair and celebrate her arrival into our family. Oh, and some of us did gaze at the moon for a couple minutes.
2 Comments:
Hi Smiths,
We miss you! Sinclair looks so wonderful. What a great celebration! I feel so guilty, we totally forgot about the moon festival. Our big first test of continuing chinese culture with our baby and we failed!! Well, you guys made up for us. Good job! (those moon cakes are little hard to get down, aren't they?!)
We hope to see you soon, or at least talk soon. How about the Irvine regional park some Sunday afternoon? Love you all,
Julie for the Landinos
love all the pictures!
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