Happy Chinese New Year!

Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy Year of the Rabbit!

CNY snuck up pretty quickly this year, and we celebrated with (what else) food! The girls have spent the past 2 weekends trying to make ice cream mochi, and then for dinner we went over to the Wong's to make homemade dumplings. This was the first time we rolled our own skins too. Fancy!

This was a batch of Nutella Mochi

You have to work quickly to wrap the filling.

Some of the finished products. It was ok.

Starting to roll dumpling dough.

Hard to make the skins uniformly round.

Kathy's mom made home made nian go. Nora loooooved it.

Cutie pies!

Fun fact about the shirt that Evie's wearing in the pic is that it is vintage! I actually "stole" it from my mom but turns out, she got it from her older sister who hand made it over 60 years ago! It's a fairly thick shirt and has a layer of down in it too. When Evie and Nora heard about it, they were so impressed that it's really vintage and now want to make sure to preserve it and pass it on to their daughters.

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Happy new year!!

Goodness, it's already 2025! It's been a really long time since we posted! We had a very lazy new year. We flew back from LA on the evening of the 31st so spent the last remaining hours of 2024 cozying up on the couch and then fell asleep before it even hit midnight! On New Years day, we slept in, cleaned up the house and then did a quick hike the next day. All in all, a good start to the year! Nora's new blanket hoodie. Cold and muddy trails. We're not in LA anymore! We hiked the Primrose trail that follows Coal Creek.

1 week checkup

We took Nora to her one week check up today and guess what? We have a porker on our hands! She weighed in at a whopping 6 lbs. 5.5 oz. That's 2.5 oz more than her birth weight! They want the baby to be back at birth weight within 2 weeks so she beat that milestone pretty handily. Hooray! So far, she's been better than Evie at eating (she doesn't take nearly as long, although she falls asleep VERY often) but she's not as good as Evie at pooping. Poor thing always seems to have tummy issues - she's very squirmy and fussy when she doesn't burp or poop. The doc doesn't think it's a big problem though since she still has lots of wet diapers, but we'll have to keep a better eye on it now. We'll have another doctor check up (with shots!) next week.

Apple tasting

Over the weekend we popped into the free Apple Tasting and Cider Making at the Orcas Island Historical Museum and it was amazing! There had to have been 30+ varieties and all of them can be found locally on the island. We had a lot of fun sampling away, tasting new varieties that I've never even heard of like Albermarle Pippin or Kennebec or early Fuji or Ashmael Kernel. I hope they do this again next year. Who wants to go with us?

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