xi nian kuai le!

That's "Happy New Year" in Chinese.  Today is the girls' first Chinese New Year, and we celebrated by giving them the traditional red envelopes.  Unfortunately, we weren't able to go visit Nai-Nai and Ye-Ye to celebrate (hopefully next year), but my parents happened to be in town, so they gave the girls red envelopes too.  The girls were very excited about the red envelopes.  Of course, they had no idea that there was money in them as well.

Wei-Yand told us that you're supposed to put the envelopes under your mattress on New Year's Eve, and the money will double over night.  Of course, this only happens if you don't open the envelope to see how much money was in it in the first place:)

I should note that the girls have ear infections (again?, still?, do I sound like a broken record?).  This one has caused some swelling and goopiness in Tannah's eye, so although she looks like she has a black eye, she doesn't:)