Happy Chinese New Year

This year for the Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet we celebrated the Chinese New Year. This year it is the Year of the Rat. We had a lot of fun putting this together. Oscar is the Cubmaster, I am one of the Bear Den Leaders, Oscar is a Webelos, Zachary is a Wolf, and we have Parker and Mason hot on their tales. Needless to say, we are involved with Scouting, which has been a lot of fun.

Here is Oscar leading the boys in a dragon parade through the audience.

We had some special guests. Here are the Jones boys showing us their karate moves.

Each of the boys showed us a demonstration of the karate moves, Zach did his with a sword (I wouldn't want to get in a fight with him), and they each broke boards. Preston tried with his feet, Sterling with his hands, and Zach just broke that board with his HEAD. I had a headache from watching.

Carter Andrews came to teach us how to count to ten in Chinese. I have already forgotten, but one of the numbers was 'leo'

We had lots of food, orange chicken, rice, veggies, and of course fortune cookies. We decorated in the colors red for good luck, and gold for prosperous times, we even had chopsticks on the tables for the gungho person to try. I was not gungho, but the boys were. (sorry no pictures of that). Oscar's mom Leonie even came to the celebration with us. At one point while handing out the awards for the boys achievements Oscar had her go to the front of the room so he could introduce her, and show the boys that it is okay to kiss their moms. The scouts have a tradition that when they receive their badges that has a mother's pin they all chant "kiss, kiss, kiss" until the scout kisses their mom.

Here is Little O receiving his Webelos badge, I was able to kiss him without him running or fighting. What a sweet son! I guess he loves me.