chinese new year party!

today was the Chinese New Year celebration at the local children's museum! and since the weather has turned cold and gray, and we have a membership to the museum, it sounded like the perfect saturday morning activity. charlotte came along as well, which meant even more fun for everyone! they made paper dragons, ate lots of play chinese food, practiced their calligraphy, tasted some authentic chinese cuisine (not of the plastic variety!) and had a generally grand time. as you can see from the pictures, isa even had a dress to wear. that was a chinatown purchase from new york last summer and had been sadly neglected in isa's closet until now. being that isa isn't really the pinky pink kind of girl, i didn't know if she'd want to wear it or not... geez, was i ever wrong! now the trick will be to actually get her to take it off before bed!