Haircut

It's been almost a month now, but Miss Lainey got her first real haircut at the end of January. She's had it trimmed with clippers before we met her, but this was the first time for her to have a real style.

In our house we aren't usually fancy with haircuts. I get mine cut maybe once a year, BJ shaves his head, and I take care of the boys. But for our girl, and for her FIRST haircut, so we did this thing all proper and took her to a salon. :)

I have to admit, I was nervous about this. The girl does not like strangers (this is a good thing). Or, more importantly, she doesn't like being touched by strangers. (seriously, who does??) We learned this to be an absolute fact over Christmas.

But sweet Miss Reagan was so awesome that Lainey was relaxed, happy, and did SO good! I could not have been more proud of her!

I don't have many pics of the actual haircut, since Lainey was on my lap, but here's after!

Mom, are you STILL taking pictures of me?

Lainey and Her Books

Chinese New Year!

Tonight we celebrated Chinese New Year! It's the year of the goat (or sheep / ram)!

This is all new to us, and it's been so fun to learn together and create some new family traditions. I am not all that skilled in Chinese cuisine, so we ordered from the experts! We also made some Chinese cookies (aka red sugar cookies... I tried), made paper dragons, lit firecrackers (Daddy did while we watched from the warm indoors!), listened to Chinese tunes, gave the kids money in little red envelopes, tried our best at chopsticks, and dressed in the traditional Chinese outfits we bought at the market in Guangzhou.

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Gongxi! (恭喜)

Just for fun... our Chinese animals by birth year...
BJ - the Rooster
Jessie - the Monkey
Canaan - the Ox
Ezra - the Rabbit (our ox and rabbit should totally be reversed)
Lainey (the coolest of all) - the Dragon

We are a diverse bunch! :)