Lantern Festival

Here we are over at Leelou's house
She is hosting a play date for the lantern festival.
I think it also goes by the name of Moon Festival, at least in Ni-Hao Kai-Lan
There is a special tea and everyone has moon cake.
Holly was so excited about this even and anticipating it for weeks
Here the kids are running around and playing
While the grown-ups are eating and talking
We are waiting for the sun to go down so the kids can march with there lanterns
In the part of Malaysia where Emily and Leena are from they told us that everyone has animal shaped lantern's
Which is also what happens in Kai-lan
I found a round Lantern for Holly to play with but none of us could find the animal shaped ones
Here we are taking a break inside playing in Leelou's room
Holly has some Chocolate Milk and reads some princess books
Before long we are back outside and the kids are all jumping
Leelou has a really cool trampoline
It was a lot of fun, although quite chaotic
There were like seven kids inside all together
Chloe, Holly, Mira, Leelou, Kaylee, Brendan, and Eli
We did end up with a few bonked heads
But they are resilient and before long whomever was hurt was back and jumping again
Its more fun when you can jump all together
They played the crashing game and all tumbled into each other
Here we are getting ready for the lantern's
And these are the yummy moon cakes
I actually tried a little bit of three of them
There were different flavors. It wasn't my favorite, but it wasn't bad either.
Here are all the kids with there lantern's
Each one has a candle inside and is tied to a stick
They had a lot of fun holding them with the candle
Then it was time for them to put on a parade for us all
They marched in a circle and sand some marching songs
It was super cute and a lot of fun
We hope this party with be a recurring one, we had a great time.