CNY in Tampa

Today we went to Tampa to Celebrate our CNY (Chinese New Year) event with our adoption agency and as always it was a hit. We got to the Embassy Suites Hotel early so that we could help Mrs. Susan and the girls set up. But first we took some pictures of ourselves. I looked like mini me to Dad - we always dress alike as it's Mom's plan to do so. I guess she's right about doing it, everybody seems to like it and is always telling me I look nice although I hate sometimes dressing up in a dress as I would say to Mom.



Here I am helping Hannah and Olivia put fortune cookies on each table, this was our job last year and with the 3 of us we get it done pretty fast.


This is Hannah and Olivia - they are both adopted by Mrs. Susan and Mr. Art, Hannah was adopted here in Florida 12 years ago and Olivia well you can see she's a China doll.

and these cute little girls are sisters too....they are Julianna and Bella, they are also Hannah's and Olivia's sisters.

and these people here are the proud parents of all Four girls adopted. They are Mrs. Susan and Mr. Art - he's a sergeant in Tampa.

Here I am sitting behind Mom's chair helping put Chinese gifts in the bags for us Children. They weren't ready as you can see as the people bringing in the stuff was running a bit behind. But I didn't mind helping at all. Hannah and Mom were checking everyone in and handing out door stubs for prizes and baggies to the children.


and now we have Mom's and Dad's God Children - Lillie and Conner. I missed them especially Lillie, for some reason I get along with her better then I do Conner. But Conner stood next to me for the longest time today watching me play my DS. This is Lillie, she is my age 7 ok - she's 2 weeks older then me. We celebrated all of our Birthday together last year, because we were all born in July.


Lillie, enjoys being the big sister 2 both of us - I can't wait to be the big brother when my sister comes along. If, you have Mom's blog address you can view 2 smile boxes she put together of more Chinese Children - there were a lot of girls there today....and cute at that.

This video is of the children at our CNY celebration doing the Chicken Dance. I have to admit that most of this video I was focusing on Lillie and Conner, because she was so good. Sam, on the other hand was focused on his hand games.