JENNIE

Rainy Mid Autumn Festival

This year we had a dissappointing mid autumn festival as it was raining the whole day. MW and MM waited anxiously for the night fall to play with their lanterns but was dissappointed by the weather.

MM sad look when we told her to abandon her plan to play with lanterns that night

however sis in law Lee Meng has a good idea...we can play at the car porch...kekeke

Mei mei's sad look that day

the brother and sister were choosing the lanterns for aunt Lee Meng to decorate the car porch....

Father and Daughter look-a-like...even dad failed to entertain MM that day.

hmmmmm.....rain rain pleasseee go away...come again another day .....princess mei mei wans to playyy......

yeahhhhh......something to cheer the kids up....Aunt Lee Meng's creative decoration...

Father and son were enjoying their father andson bonding...

Even grandma failed too to entertain MM....

Nevermindlar MM, cheer up....we can still wait for next year yeahhh.....

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, is a popular Asia tradition of Chinese origin,dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty.It is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Chinese Lantern Festival is held on the 15 day of the first lunar month.

The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar monthof the Chinese Calender(usually around mid- or late-September ), a date that parallels the Autumn and Spring Equinoxes of the solar calendar. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different varieties.

Traditionally, on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomeloes together. Accompanying the celebration, there are additional cultural or regional customs, such as:
Eating moon cakes outside under the moon
Putting pomelo rinds on one's head
Carrying brightly lit lanterns, lighting lanterns on towers, floating sky lanterns
Burning incense in reverence to deities including Chang'e(simplified Chinese: 嫦娥; traditional Chinese: 嫦娥; pinyin: cháng'é)
Planting Mid-Autumn trees
Collecting dandelion leaves and distributing them evenly among family members
Fire Dragon Dances
Shops selling mooncakes, before the festival, often display pictures of Chang'e floating to the moon.

therefore, this year, MW's school has organized a mid-autumn festivals....MW and MM were happily enjoy this festival in the school

MW was having a great dilemma....to choose the modern battery-operated ultraman aeroplane lantern or to play with the tranditional candle mickey mouse lantern...

Finally he has made up his mind....the candle mickey mouse lantern...mei mei too chooses a candle princess lantern

we walk around the neighbourhood with his friends and parents...

MW was guided by one of his teacher...

MM on the other hand...was happily join in the crowd...

MM 2nd Birthday...

Finally, my lil princess MM is now 2 years old. Prior to her birthday, we went to toy"r"toy store for shopping spree...this is the time of the year whereby mm can choose unlimited toys she wans..of course MW can choose his too..but limit for 1 only.

they insisted to carry their own toys...my goodness...even the shopping bags are bigger than them...