Happy Chinese New Year!

Chinese New Year started yesterday and so far it has been fun...of course, we didn't get our house clean like the Chinese do, but it has still been fun. On Sunday we cooked a delicious feast of Chinese food - crab rangoons, spring rolls, noodles with eggplant sauce, hot and sour soup, noodle and cabbage soup, chicken in peanut sauce, fried rice, and steamed dumplings, and of course oranges...mmmmm!

Gramma and Papa came over as did Ryan, Gillian, baby Liam, Erin, and Evan. We set the table with beautiful clothes we bought in China and a few even tried chopsticks...

In school today we also had a feast and every one received red envelopes with lucky money and a few other fun items...

Here are a couple of pics from today...as you can see Cecelia and her friend Meilyn are getting silly in pictures now!

Fashion Show

Cecelia has been in two fashion shows this past weekend...both with our local FCC(families with children from China) group...they are being held in conjunction with Chinese New Year...the first was at a nearby public library and was much fun...the next was for the residents of an area nursing home...

Cecelia has enjoyed them alot...we were unsure how she would do because of her age but she is fantastic...she acts very confident and seems to have a great time!

Enjoy the pictures...

Fashion Show

Cecelia is going to be in a fashion show this Saturday(we hope)...it is at a local library and is for Chinese New Year...I made her a dress today and here she is posing in it...if she does well, I hope to post more!

Cecelia and "Baby Liam"

I love this new picture of Cecelia, Ryan, and Liam...

On a another note, Cecelia has to go back to Boston tomorrow for a check-up with the surgeon...hopefully she can start to eat mushy foods instead of this liquid diet she has been on...she is back down to 19 pounds and that feels scary...

Our family has grown!

Cecelia Grace Zhifan is the proud aunt of a new little baby boy!!!! Announcing the birth of our first grandchild, Liam Healy! He was born on December 30th(during Cecelia's surgery) at 8:35 in the morning! Mom and Dad are Ryan and Gillian! We couldn't be prouder - I cry even just thinking of it! Liam is beautiful and perfect in every way!

Cecelia's soft palate surgery!

Well, soft palate surgery is behind us and Cecelia did very well..she had the surgery on Tuesday, the 30th of December and was home by Thursday night! She is a little cranky, but aside from that no other problems...We go back to Boston on the 14th for a checkup and then she is free to heal until this summer, when she will have the base of her nose and the maxillary bone redone...it was broken incorrectly during her lip closure surgery in China and has to be fixed...a worry for another day, but today all is fine!

The pictures are from Boston...the first is the night before her surgery, the second is the oxygen/moisture tent she had to be in for 48 hours, the third is the night of the surgery, and the fourth is the second night, and the last is her first day home! Kids are amazing!!!