1st day of Chinese New Year

This morning, woke up eagerly as I wished Vicky, Caleb and CT a Happy New Year. I love Chinese New Year as there is just so many goodies to eat and ang pow to collect as well as give. It is definitely good being a child and just receiving ang pows from everyone but I also feel happy giving them away now that I am married.

However, my relatives and my family still give me and CT ang pow, so I still get to relieve my good old days of receiving.

As usual for every 1st day of Chinese New Year, I would prepare vegetarian mixed veggies with rice for breakfast. I used to go to my grandma's place in the morning and have that for breakfast but since she passed away, we do not go there for breakfast. So instead, I cooked my own and have it with my family now. This would be the 1st tradition in the Goh's family! :)

I prepared this last night and stored it in the fridge so that this morning, I can just heat it up. Anyway, this dish is nicer when left longer as it becomes more tasty.



And just for fun and tradition, I prefer to have this dish with rice in a bowl and chopsticks. I find it tastier-psychologically...hehe. I would scoop the veggies into my rice bowl and put my mouth at the edge of the bowl, lift it up and scoop it into my mouth. Its more delicious eating this way!



Our first stop is to my parent's place at 10am plus. Here's Caleb with gong gong.



At my parent's place, CT and I served tea to them. I feel this would also be a good tradition to adopt so that I can teach my children in future to always respect your parents and appreciate them by serving tea.

After that, went to my mother-in-law's place. Here's Caleb playing...



Here's Caleb with Keelia, his cousin (2 months younger than Caleb)!


This was what they were doing after their feedings..



Look at how they sleep. Keelia open up her legs while Caleb sleeps so lady-like. Strange.



For the 1st day of CNY, we would go visiting house to house of CT's relatives. First, we go to his grandma's place and see all his relatives (mum's side), then we go back to my mum-in-law's place and wait for his dad's side of relatives to come. After that, we would go house to house of his dad's relatives.

Here's Caleb with uncle..



The last stop was at my place where they came over. Glad they came as I had so much goodies in my house that I do not know how to finish. After that, they went on visiting from house to house, but we didnt follow anymore. Instead, went back my mum-in-law's place for dinner.

Because Caleb had been out the whole day, he was perspiring. So we bathed him there.

After dinner, went to Marianne's place to visit Phoebe and Asher.

Here's Phoebe and Caleb playing! They were actually playing together. Phoebe was trying to build the blocks up but Caleb was destroying them. Ha. It was quite interesting to see them playing.



Here's Caleb on the rocking horse.


Ok, Caleb had way too much stimulations today. I am sure he enjoyed himself as he was playing quite a bit!