Gong Xi Fa Cai! (Happy Chinese New Year!)

Our Tuesday did not start out too well,

Princess woke up with an upset tummy.

Very early in the morning.

After sleeping on the couch for about 3 hours!

She woke up feeling fine, and ready to "do some school".

The Lincoln Logs were picked up from a wonderful freecycler this weekend.

I had previously picked a small batch up from someone else, and

figured maybe I'd end up with a whole set, but this was an entire full

set of them, in VERY GOOD condition too. We were all excited and have

been playing with them since Sunday!

We read our Mozart books, while listening to the music CD

that came with one of the books (see Yesterday's book post)

then a few Chinese themed books (one is also in the book post),

then we started crafting. Lanterns came first.

We took a sheet of construction paper (we used mostly paper that had pictures

we did not want or need to "save" on one side), and folded it in half - so we had a sheet

of 4 and a 1/4 by 11 instead of 8 and a 1/2 by 11. Then we cut at the fold (see first pic above),

then we made a tube by taping the sides together and squished a bit.

We used a hole punch to put a hole on each side (near the top) then strung them up

using leftover yarn. They looked very festive over our dining room table.

Then we moved on to our dragons.Yes, we made two. We could not agree on which style we liked

best, so we made both.

Dragon #1 consisted of a print out of a dragon head to color (OK, they both did,we used the same one for both dragons..this was a "craft bag" already made up and just waiting for us to get to it)We cut both heads out after coloring.

Then Princess traced her hands on construction paper (we did two sheets-4 hands)

Then she cut them out.Glued them together
Then we stuck them on a tongue depressor. The second we used leftover strips of construction paper folded accordion style and attached to the cut out dragon head with a tongue depressor

attached as well.

We placed them in a red glass on the table with our chopsticks until after dinner.

Dinner was delivered by a local Chinese Food place and just what the doctor

(Dr Mom) ordered. Literally, on Sunday I placed an order to be delivered

on Tuesday (via the Internet) as they were closed on Monday.If Princess looks a bit bored, she was waiting for Farmer Dad to get

home from work, he has been working late and "we" are not adjusting to it very well

at all. Somewhere between 5 and 7 pm is a big change from being home at 3:45pm.

Then we had a Dragon parade to bring us all good luck!

After dinner and parade, Princess sang us a few songs (traditional around here),

and then we played with the Lincoln logs while we watched the Nova special on

Monarch Butterflies. Desert was sherbet instead of Chocolate Cake (we'll do that today)

due to her earlier tummy issues. Bedtime was 11pm. I was worried she would be up all night after sleeping all morning, but she was agreeable at bedtime..for a change.

This morning I awoke to a bit of snow, now turned to freezing rain.

Princess is still sleeping. I am going to go wake her now.

It's Blueberry Pancake Day, and Ernie's (from Sesame St)

Birthday, and Kazoo Day (I'm thinking music will be Rubber Duckie on the Kazoo).

I'll have her help with the pancakes and we'll make the chocolate cake (Yesterday was Choc Cake Day) and have it for desert tonight to celebrate Ernie's B-day.

I hope your day is as sweet as the blueberries and chocolate we will consume today,

if not..there is always tomorrow! ;-)