Chinese New Year and stuff

 Last week was Chinese New Year and we were invited to spend the New Year's Eve with Andre and his family. The kids were super excited as they love spending time with him and his mom had bought them each beautiful Chinese jackets which are reversible...i loved the red and pink sides but the kids loved the gold as they were apparently the king and queen for the night:) We had a delicious hotpot meal and the kids got spoilt rotten with red envelopes(hong bau) which they went shopping with the next day. Maya was not too impressed when it came time to leave though...just ten more minutes...just ten more minutes....

 

 

 The Art museum has a special Astro boy exhibition on which has some great original works and displays. of course Dylan loved the exhibition and although she is a big fan of the movie Maya was a bit scared to go in..although once in she was fine albeit reluctant to admit it that she was fine:)

 

And with the Chinese New Year dragon...Maya does not like people in costumes like this and the girl above:)

Elsewhere in the Art museum you can walk over this projection and drag colour to paint the picture which refreshes every few minutes with a clean picture...kids loved it.

 Naussica and Ciro napping at home:)

 Maya went around the house taking hundreds of pictures the other day (literally hundreds) this was one of the better ones..a self portrait:)

 Ciro and Dylan playing Super Mario brothers with some feline assistance.

 

 Lantern festival is coming up so they are busy constructing all the displays at Wen shin park. We went for a walk around but will return when it is all done and lit up.

 At the Science museum Dylan wanted a family pic taken but Maya was a bit nervous to get close to the dino.

The kids are super proud of the tulip that they grew from a bulb!!

Maya's birthday

Maya had an extended birthday. It started last weekend where we went to the new department store and she chose what she wanted for her birthday.

 

 Playing with her Sylvanian families restaurant.

Dylan pulling funny faces.

 Dylan's portrait of me.

 Dylan was so excited about Maya's birthday, barely awake he leapt out of bed and ran to give her the card he had written for her:)

 She wanted a heart cake so that is what she got. Pink icing made with natural colouring...strawberries:)

At school.

 

 We had a long day at school because of making up time before the holiday so we went off to starbucks for the lunch break.