I love China food!

Two words. China. Fun. It's how we celebrate the Chinese New Year. No, we aren't Chinese, we just like to order takeout. And if more than a billion people in the world are having a party, then they won't mind 5 more. One year we played chinese checkers, another year the kids got red envelopes. Last year we watched Kung Fu Panda. We're really flexible with our celebrations. China Fun is the restaurant we order the fun food from. We all have our favorites. Audrey is all about the spicy Orange Chicken. Nate loves the steamed dumplings. Jon enjoys the Lo Mein and I like the Crab Ragoon. Eli likes the rice, and the soy sauce. Lots and lots of soy sauce.

Tonight we ordered our favorites and wished the other side of the world a very Happy New Year. The discussion of the evening was about the year of our births. This new year is the Year of the Rabbit. I was born in a Year of the Rabbit. Which, if I read the zodiac right, makes me adorable and fluffy. Jon and Nate are both Year of the Tiger. Eli wants to be a Tiger too but he is aptly cast in the role of Monkey. He wasn't very happy about that until we reminded him that Curious George is a monkey who can do things that we can't do and then he was cool with it. Audrey was appropriately born in The Year of the Horse which explains a lot.

Check out what Chinese Zodiac Animal you are here: www.chinesezodiac.com

Eli summed up the evening when he stood up on his chair and shouted, "I LOVE CHINA FOOD!" And then immediately began calling dibs for leftovers tomorrow. Our evening came to a close with the all American fortune cookie. Jon's face pretty much sums up that experience:

Happy Chinese New Year!