dong dong chiang!!

my uncle, living under a new roof in Ara Damansara, invited the Lion Dance troop to "bless" the house this CNY. It was scheduled to come at about 2 pm, but come 2.30 pm there was still no sign of them! And so i ate...because there were so many tins of cookies and chips and such lying around, beckoning me to have more. Because eating passes time, and there was nothing much to do. haha...

lucky for us, someone else showed up, stealing the attention for a while. Meet baby Ethan - the newest addition to the family. Just past his full moon, baby Ethan is a healthy little baby who looks exactly like his father. My cousin, his mother, brings him everywhere, knowing that he'd be the star of the day no matter where he went.
Finally at about 3.10 pm the Lion Dance troop arrives. From the van jumps a little boy no bigger than 6 years old. everyone thought he was just tagging along, but everyone was dead wrong! the little boy steadily donned a mini lion head, and when the drums and cymbals went off, he jumped and pranced and shook alongside 2 bigger lions! He was ADORABLE!!! Everyone ooohed and aaaahed and awwwwed at the little lion peeking through every now and then. He was so small i was afraid the crowd of excited children and grown ups would trample the poor thing!

He moved with a purpose. He was a little lion on a mission, as i watched him strut around the place leaving no corner un"blessed". I used every bit of my will power to refrain from just picking him up and cuddling him. hehe...
Overall, today was the most Chinese New Yearish i've felt all year. I thought i've outgrown the wearing of new clothes, the house to house visiting, the collecting of ang paus. But i've definitely not outgrown Lion Dances. :)