Welcome Year of the Snake, which just happens to be one of Helaina's favorite critters. She even sleeps with her purple and black rattlesnake plushie every night. It lies right along side her and even gets tucked in under the covers next to her. We celebrated as we always do by going out to dinner at a Chinese restaurant, of course.
Decked out in luck red for our outing. She slammed down wonton soup and a combo plate of chicken lo mein and rice. Like the blog says, noodle girl gone wild.
We made goodie bags for Helaina to give her classmates. I dipped fortune cookies in chocolate, decorated them with sprinkles and tied each one individually with a piece of red yarn. By the time I made enough for family, friends, teachers, school office workers and her classmates, I think I did about 60 cookies in all.
Besides the fortune cookie, the bags included noisemakers, red envelopes with chocolate coins, little toy snakes (that I couldn't believe I found), and a small notepad.
Along with a book about Chinese New Year to read to the class, Helaina brought in some Chinese money, her Year of the Dog silk scarf and her Chinese drum to show. She wore her beautiful pink silk outfit to school too.
Meet the newest members of our family - Peaches and Ellie (named after the wooley mamoths in the Ice Age movies). About 3 weeks ago we told Helaina that she could get a goldfish - thought it would keep her from hounding us about a puppy (we were wrong). We went to the petstore with our over-excited child and found that the goldfish were so small that we could get 2 for our gallon-sized bowl (more squeals and shrieks). 15cents a fish - now that's a cheap pet. The bowl set-up cost more than that. Notice the "Welcome home Peaches" sign Helaina made and taped to the back of the bowl.
The funniest thing was when Zoey noticed the bowl with the fishies swimming around.
As you can see, she was VERY interested. Still is, somewhat. For at least a few weeks after we got the fish you'd find her jumping up on the table or counter, staring them down and even trying to bat at them with her paw through the bowl. She's since lost most interest in them but I still put a lid on the bowl when we leave the house or go to bed. Cats, you know - can't trust them a bit.
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