星期四是感恩节，今年是唯一一年我们没有回费城Rob他们家，又是宸宸的第一个感恩节，所以我很早就决定要大整一番（其实周日的时候我们还去Stamford看了感恩节游行，不过照片在Rob那里，我还是等他更新吧）。

 

感恩节的传统食物是火鸡，当然我们也得弄一个来做做样子了。选了半天，最小的居然都有13磅。没办法，这为了节日气氛咱也得弄一个呀。我跟着网上的中式火鸡的菜谱，本来打算周二晚上就开始腌，结果居然那时火鸡还冻得跟个冰块似的，只好周三下午才开始腌。 腌其实很简单，拿花椒和盐一起炒热了往火鸡的里里外外使劲抹。

 

周四一大早，我把腌好的火鸡从冰箱拿出来，把表面的盐冲洗掉，然后用水+糖+酱油+姜和成调料，每10分钟用刷子往上抹。11点，我用锡箔纸把火鸡表面包起来，样子跟个帐篷似的然后扔进烤箱设定华氏450度开始烤。 同时开始做Stuffing。Stuffing也是很有中国传统的。虽说我不是广东人，但是咱喝早茶的时候不也吃过糯米鸡吗。我用糯米+香肠+酱油+姜+葱花+香菜，搅在一起然后往火鸡肚子里使劲地填啊。 放好后再用锡箔纸蒙起来扔进烤箱烤，不过温度变成375度。烤两小时以后再拿出来然后翻一面，刷汁水，然后继续烤。从这里开始每30分钟拿出来翻一次。

 

因为我太激动了，开始地早了点，火鸡下午3点好了结果客人还没到。我只好把火鸡放回烤箱里保温。晚饭我还做了甜薯，辣子鸡丁，回锅肉，萝卜丸子汤。来的客人又带了羊肉炖胡萝卜以及武汉热干面。

 

先来张全景图吧

 

 

从上次更新到现在宸宸有了个新外号叫SuperChen， 为啥子呢，看下面照片就晓得了。。。 现在每天要在那飞呀飞的当超人，我们还得一起配超人的插曲，我们一唱他就就眉开眼笑的. 照片里的帽子和背心好像都大了，看起来跟个土八路似的

 

 

 

Last weekend (Halloween Weekend - yes, this update is a bit late) we took Roman Trick-Or-Treating on Friday night, then took him down to Philly on Saturday. 

 

A while back we found a cute "Dinosaur" costume from Babies 'R Us for Halloween.  We didn't really have any plans at the time, since it would've been weird for us to take him around our neighborhood by ourselves, since he can't eat candy and there are few, if any, trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood.  

However, Leona's boss was kind enough to invite us to join his kids trick or treating in his neighborhood.  So last friday, we met up with him and other parents of trick-or-treaters and headed out.  It was a great time.  All the people in the neighborhood were very friendly, and Roman was a big hit.  My arm got a bit tired from carrying him for about 2 hours straight, but it was worth it.  We were going to give Roman's stash of candy to Leona's boss's kids, but their mom said they already had enough.  So, I guess we will just have to eat it ourselves!

 

 

Then Saturday was the big trip down to Philly- Roman's first "road trip."  We broke the trip up by taking the opportunity to meet up with a friend that Leona made on a Chinese message board who ALSO had a newborn son of 3.5 months old.  We met at the Grand Opening of a Babies 'R Us in North Brunswick.  We were excited to see what our sons would think of meeting another baby.  However, their reaction could best be described as mild curiosity.

 

Then after some shopping, we headed to a Shanghai restaurant for a delicious lunch.  After lunch, we said goodbye to our new friends and hit the road again, down to our first stop-Mommom's! Mommom was thrilled to see her 5th great grandchild.

From 1stPhillyTrip

 

Then to Mom's to see what was going on.  We stuck around for a while, but were beginning to feel exhausted from the long day. We then headed to Dad's for some take-out (too tired to deal with eating out).  Leona napped, while Dad ("Pappi") played with Roman.  They got along great- Pappi had Roman laughing hysterically for like 5 minutes straight. 

 

Then back to Mom's to crash. 

 

 

When we woke up in the morning, Leona realized that we didn't have a cake for the get together brunch that Mom had generously planned for Roman's quasi-100day b-day celebration.  So we ran out to Philly Chinatown and picked up some stuff, then stopped at 320 for the food mom ordered.

 

Then my cousins' families came by for the brunch.  It was exciting having all of Mommom's great grandkids together (with the new addition) for the first time.  It's been a while since we've all met up, so it was great to see how big the kids were getting.  Everyone enjoyed meeting Roman, especially Arianna, who got the chance to hold him. 

 

 

 

One cute moment was when I mentioned to the kids that Roman was half Chinese.

 

 

"Why??" one of them asked.  

"Well because Leona is his mommy and she is Chinese."  

"OH, so you can speak Chinese!!?!?!"  another asked of Leona.  

"Yes," she replied. 

 

 

 

"Can you say our names in Chinese?" asked another.

So Leona then told them how one would pronounce each of their names in Chinese.

"COOL!" 

 

Since my Mom was to start taking care of Roman after my paternity leave ended until Thanksgiving, she came back up to CT with us after the party. Again, it was a long drive, but luckily traffic wasn't too bad.  Thought it was an exhausting weekend, it was very much worth it to get the chance to introduce Roman to his Philly relatives who couldn't make it up to CT.