Keeping with our theme of lumping together special occasions (remember Christmas/Hanukkah/Birthday?), I decided it was completely kosher to lump together Chinese New Year, Mark's birthday and Chandler's birthday. The birthday boy couldn't have cared less. The birthday girl mostly agreed.
Here's dinner:
I can't really say what anything was. I know there was a chicken and date soup and a shrimp ball soup. There was a pork, perhaps with ginger. There was fish. There were greens. It was all so good. So good that it's a little hard to imagine asking the chefs, Andy and Cindy, to eat our meager offerings ever again. The flavors were so bold. Delicious.
Here are the kids, clearly thinking hard about food:
And then it was cake time. Chandler had thought long and hard about what kind of cake she wanted. Around mid-January, she was asking for an almond pistachio cake - she loves nuts. She eventually settled on a vanilla cake with chocolate frosting that I had made for New Year's. I guess it made a good impression. The recipe could easily serve twenty people, so I was easy to convince.
Chandler seemed pleased.
We didn't get the girls home until long past their bedtime. But they weren't interested in sleep. No, they just wanted to count their New Year's money and play with the plastic Cindy got for Chandler.
Play on, girls. I'll be snug in a corner eating leftovers all week.
Note to self: This lumping scheme will not work next year. Chandler asked several times on her actual birthday when her friends were coming to eat cake.
Another note to self: Help Chandler make friends besides Peanut.
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