Monday, September 13, 2004
Max's Moon Yit and Father's Day
A Moon Yit is a traditional Chinese celebration held for a baby when it reaches 1 month. It dates back to times when infant mortality was high so they did not celebrate a baby's birth until after a month. The mother was also house bound until after this time as well. I can assure you that neither max nor Deanna stayed at home for the entire month!
The day was also Father's Day and I was blessed with his first smile (well, Dee got the first one) which was fantastic. He got me a cool, modular cable kit for connecting up computers/devices for my mobile office and Dee got me a CD from the herd.
The party is traditionally put on by the Father's parent's so on Sunday, 5th of September (Father's Day) we headed of the Nanny & Yeh-Yeh's house for a party.
We had some traditional red eggs (red for good luck and eggs to symbolise life, made by Mum [Nanny]), chicken wine soup (made by Tai-Yan) and noodles (for long life).
It was glorious day and the kids enjoyed running around the lawn. I think the funniest thing was seeing little William pushing D'Arcy's play mower around as far as you could see.
Photos are here.
The day was also Father's Day and I was blessed with his first smile (well, Dee got the first one) which was fantastic. He got me a cool, modular cable kit for connecting up computers/devices for my mobile office and Dee got me a CD from the herd.
The party is traditionally put on by the Father's parent's so on Sunday, 5th of September (Father's Day) we headed of the Nanny & Yeh-Yeh's house for a party.
We had some traditional red eggs (red for good luck and eggs to symbolise life, made by Mum [Nanny]), chicken wine soup (made by Tai-Yan) and noodles (for long life).
It was glorious day and the kids enjoyed running around the lawn. I think the funniest thing was seeing little William pushing D'Arcy's play mower around as far as you could see.
Photos are here.
