Our Chinese New Year

I consider ourselves lucky that CNY this year falls on Thursday & Friday such that we get a nice long 4-day weekend. In fact I was already on leave on the Eve but that was for running around. So, what were we up to?

Eve - Reunion dinner at PILs

1st Day - Customary mee suah lunch at PILs then to VT's granny place where all the relative congregate. VT has (had) 4 grannies but only 1 surviving (his) hence it's like a circus every year. The family custom is also to distribute 2 angpow packets per child, which aptly explains me wrapping 140 packets! This is my 4th years spending CNY with them but I still struggle with the names. I get by with "Aunty" and "Uncle"!

2nd Day - Lunch at my parents, who whipped up a storm! Can't remember much of the rest of the day since I was too stuffed with food!

3rd Day - Organised a small kiddies gathering at my place. Will blog about it separately.

4th Day - Went down to Klang to meet some more relatives (VT's side) and watched 4 straight hours of Barney thereafter as VT was napping and we couldn't go out!

Of late, Bryan has been waking up from his naps, crying hysterically. There was once when he cried and yelled for 40mins and didn't want to be put down. Nothing could pacify him until I gave him a small tub of ice-cream. I think it could be over-excitement from all the celebrations as he has been napping 45mins once a day during the holidays. Luckily, he is able to konk off for 11-13hours at night.

Tomorrow it's back to the grind.