Happy year of the Ox 牛年快樂

The year of the Ox had kicked off with the Ma clan party at aunty Prim and uncle Nick's house. This year was an extra special one, because Aidan's grandpa turned 70 on the same day as the Chinese New Year day. We all celebrated grandpa's 70th on the Saturday prior to the new year's day.

鼠年走了 牛年來了 今年Aidan阿公的７０歲生日剛好是大年初一 我們就提前幫Aidan阿公先慶祝

Grandpa's birthday dinner
７０大壽晚餐

Aidan watched while grandpa blow out the candles. Happy birthday grandpa!!!
Aidan阿公吹蠟燭

On new years eve, Aidan must have known he is going to receive a red pocket from mum and dad, so he stayed up and waited till he received it before he was willing to go to bed. On new year's day Aidan woke up around 9am to have his breakfast and also watched while I attempted making a taro cake.
大年夜 小Aidan收到第一個紅包
大年初一 小Aidan早早起床吃早餐 看Aidan娘做芋頭蛋糕

Aidan's first red pocket from mum and dad!
Aidan的第一個紅包

Ugly taro cake (tasted better than it looked! I blame the spatula)
長得有點醜的芋頭蛋糕

9.00am Mini A dressed in red to welcome the ox
穿紅色 迎牛年

Recently mini A had developed stranger danger complex and is extremely sticky to Colin and me. He was not a happy boy when he saw the amount of people at the party and would start screaming whenever other people carried him. This resulted in over stimulation and in turn resulted in no sleeping from 9am to 3pm in the afternoon. Aidan was not a happy boy!
大年初一 我們又跑趴了 去跟親戚慶祝 順便再次慶祝 Aidan阿公的生日
小Aidan從上個禮拜開始害怕陌生人 而且很黏我跟Aidan爸 所以這天他過的很慘 因為有人抱他 他就會一直哭 因為人太多 天氣太熱 他被過度刺激 從早上９點到下午３點都沒睡

1.30pm Mini A: It's too hot.. I don't want to sleep..
不想睡 正在"盧" >.<

While Aidan was upstairs rolling around and whinging, Aidan's grandpa was cutting his massive birthday cookie (apparently there were a lot of cakes and the 70 candles resembled a mini bonfire)
Aidan在發盧的時候 大家正在慶祝Aidan阿公的生日

2.30pm Secret discussion...
老爸來安慰 老媽被"青" （小Aidan跟他爸哭訴:很熱啊 壞啊母 一直逼我睡覺）

3.30pm Mini A in a nudie sleeping on daddy's belly..
太熱了 脫光睡 老爸的肚皮很舒服

3.45pm Not long after.. daddy and grandma joined in to sleep..
Aidan爸跟婆婆也很累 大家一起睡

On the second day of the chinese new year, we went to Aidan's other grandparents' home to celebrate. Aidan received more red pocket from grandpa and grandma.
大年初二 Aidan回外公外婆家 又收到一個紅包

Grumpy sleepy Aidan munching on his rusk
沒睡飽的Aidan

Aidan: Do you want my biccie grandps??
Aidan: 阿公你要吃我的餅乾嗎?

May the big fat ox bring everyone health, wealth and prosperity!!!!
祝大家牛年身體健康 萬事如意 發大財！！！！！