My parents love the boys. My mom tries really hard every day to make food that the boys will eat. Dumplings, stuffed buns, Wonton, stir fry, fried rice, noodles... She went all out. My parents also insisted to pay for our food the whole time we were there. Whenever the kids pointed or mentioned anything they wanted to eat, my parents would make sure we have them at home. My mom got the boys several outfits, shoes, many toys. They love to take the kids out for walks, or just playing around in the yard. It was so sweet to see Michael planting his sweet kisses on my dad's face and Enoch asking my mom to hold him when tired or cold. I know the boys love my parents too. They also loved to play with Uncle Pengpeng. Oh, and Michael is obsessed with Pengpeng's cute girl friend :) (Sam has also shared some pics earlier. )
The boys got to play with my cousins' kids, their second cousins. One girl XinXin is about two years older than Enoch. She plays really well with them. It was fun to see them chase each other around the house. The other boy TongJie is only three months older than Enoch. He had a hard time sharing his toys and was sad not being the center of the big family for once. But generally he is a good boy. That little motorcycle Enoch is riding in the pic bellow actually has an electric accelerator pedal. If you step on it, it will ride like a real motorcycle only slower. It's a crazy toy that I've never seen here. Not sure if it's safe for kids to ride but it was sure popular with all the boys. Both Enoch and Michael loved it. They kept asking to go play with TongJie just so that they could ride the little motorcycle.
We got to visit a lot of relatives during Chinese New Year. Ate a lot of dumplings... There is this tradition that we put stuff inside the dumplings. Like money, candy, sticky cake and other stuff that are "meaningful". I had two chinese dates in my bowl of dumplings which means "Have kids early". Ha:) I guess I did have kids early and another one is on the way. Getting Red envelop money is fun too. Enoch probably knows more about chinese money than US dollars now. We decided to put the kids' red envelop money aside to give to them when they are older.
Our village has a dance/drum team playing around the town during the new years. They came to our house to play for us one day. It was fascinating. They normally charge about $50 Red Envelop money for playing. I took some video and sent to Sam and now it's on youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHAsMYnssfY&feature=share&list=UU7wJEeXldcY2Vd47p8ib2EQ
We also saw people playing Dragon on the street:
Both kids loved playing this hammer game:
Sadly the government canceled the city's firework show and lantern festival show this year. We were so so so sad!! But my parents bought some big fireworks so we had a little party in our yard. And Enoch got to play with fireworks too. He loved it so much! Michael was a little scared.
"Driving" tractors were always fun for little kids:
Enoch loved this crafty activity, he asked to do it every time we went to the city. They basically put paint/die on a picture and then somehow transfer to a paper after the paint is dry. This time Enoch did a hello kitty with Michael's help.
I have to post this pic again. Kids in my hometown all wear similar kind of clothes in winter. Somehow everybody there thinks that the kids are always cold and need to put a lot more clothes on.
It was really hard to be a single parent in China. But all in all, I'm just glad that we got to do this trip.
On a side note, my boys' chinese got so much better! Enoch can speak Chinese fluently now and Michael can repeat whatever we say and speak Chinese in sentences. Before the trip Michael was not saying much chinese at all. So that's a bonus!
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