Gung hay fat choy!

Happy Gung hay fat choy! The Chinese New Year celebration has just ended. We have a large Chinese population on the island, so this is a big deal. Chinese New Year begins on the first day of the first month of the year with a new moon. This year, that was February 7. The celebration ends fifteen days later. The Chinese hat he made in preschool shows all of the symbols from the Chinese lunar calendar. We sent in a box of Chinese almond cookies for share and tell at preschool. Son1 came home with a little red envelope containing coins in honor of Chinese New Year.
On Friday his class went to Chinatown for the celebration. This is the year of the rat.

G is for Garden

The letter of the week in preschool is G.

The hat reads:

G is for garden. Growing and learning together in 2008.

See those little green shoots in the middle of my purple ground cover? Those are from heliconia, which is a beautiful plant my neighbor planted on the other side of the mailboxes. They have a crazy under-root system, and we can't seem to get rid of them.