Some friends of ours recently returned from China with their new eight year old son, Allan Jun Ke. So my friend Ellen and I decided that we should throw them a "baby" shower of sorts. A welcoming party, really.
We threw it at a local park. I don't know if you can tell, but we hung up both the American and Chinese National flag. Here we are starting to decorate.
FF put on her party dress.
Some familiar faces showed up!
The big kids hauled the little kids around a bit.
And Lili, who was adopted from Wuxi at the same time as Jun Ke, joined them.
The battle of the cakes!
Who knows who will win?...
But then a bunch of Eagle Scouts who were having a party in the community center next door tipped the scales by bringing over the remains of THEIR flag cake, and suddenly there were two American flags!
Here is the man of honor (Jun Ke, not Ryan)
Hazel, Spike and Jun Ke were going REALLY fast.
Then Hazel got off.
Then Spike got off.
And Jun Ke was happy to be the last man sitting.
There is a life sized concrete rhino at the park that the kids couldn't stay off of.
Rhino horn.
It was a lovely day in the park. A nice party for a very nice little boy.
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