Lunar New Year - Year of the Rat

Our local FCC group met for dinner at the Dragon Yuan.  Total chaos.  Spent too much time trying to rearrange chairs and tables.  Didn't get the coloring pages to the kids.  Scattered chocolate coins out after kids had food.  It was crazy busy.  Stupid long lines for the food.  I ended up barely getting to talk to anyone.  It was loud.  Oy.  Kids looked to be having a good time. There was a massive upcharge for the crab legs. Yuk. Then...the wait staff actually  came and asked us to leave so other people could have our tables.  Yikes.  Not totally sure how the rest of the group felt but I think we might need a different plan next year.  And, worst of all, I forgot entirely to take a group picture of the kids!  We had 21 there too.  

Then most of us moved onto our place.  Where the pace was a little calmer and we got to visit with the adults and the snacks were good  :)

Newest little one to our group.  Shannon and Ken are fostering Silas! 

Emily stayed overnight with Jia.  Then Fei and Eric drove her home Sunday afternoon.  Fei is wanting more practice hours her road test is end of Feb.

Little miss had a skating day at school.

Millie and Esmei playing on the stairs.  I could let you all think they just magically posed pretty like this but the truth is Fei and I took about 10 minutes with pencils/toys and treats to get them like this. With a pencil waving above my head to get them to look up.  Haha.  Love it.  

She is sooo curious about what we're all up to.  She peeks like this until she feels safe enough to come all the way down.  She bolts back upstairs and hides under my bed or behind Fei's bed when she gets scared.