We decided to celebrate Chinese New Year. Aunt Ali, who lived in Bejiing, taught us some fun things about the country and history of China and the celebrations there. We put on costumes and Ali showed us how she can write in Chinese characters and speak some Mandarin.Then we made red, paper lanterns and had a tea party- with herbal tea, egg drop soup and rice- we used chopsticks and listened to traditional Chinese music. After the twins went home we baked homemade fortune cookies and dad brought home shrimp chips to fry and other snacks. It was fun. We also looked up the Chinese zodiak to see what year we were born. Gabe and Mom are year of the Tiger, Nate is a Dragon and Dad is the Ram...it is funny how the descriptions sort of match our personalities.