Okay, long time no post. I'm finding that Blogger is not the best way to get photos out to the world - or, at least, it's not as convenient as Flickr, to which I can directly upload an many photos as I want from iPhoto on the mac.
So today's post will consist mainly of a link to my flickr page...
But first, a one-month party story...
Chinese tradition is to celebrate the end of the first month of a baby's life (well...I guess the real tradition is to do this for boys only, but that's different these days). This is the end of the time when the baby and the mom are supposed to stay home, doing nothing but eat and sleep. Its also the end of the live-in mother or mother-in-law (who helps with cooking, cleaning, and baby care for the first month.) Given the difficulty of giving birth and getting a baby through the perils of the start of outside life (also a historic truth, but not far from true today) getting to one month is definitely cause for celebration.
The baby dresses in a good outfit, and wears gold jewelry. Owen had 2 gold bracelets and a gold medallion sewn onto his hat. These were both hand-me-downs that were used for the one-month party for Jayde's brother, Peter.
We celebrated with 2 special dishes - sticky rice (油飯）and a hard-boiled egg with the shell dyed red. We also had Thai food, Burmese tea leaf salad, Taiwanese cookies (or, at least, cookies made by a Taiwanese person) and some good ol' American cake.
This picture is Jayde's mom, with Owen in his special outfit.
For more pictures (of this party and lots else) go to:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45091219@N07/sets/
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