All About Your Child

15 days of Chinese Lunar New Year celebration is probably the period where my kids will go crazy over their 2nd-love-of-their-little-lives : Chinese Lion Dance.

They are everywhere. We saw these 2 live size lion-dance-head in the supermarket and my boys just kept saying “I want to take photo with the lion-dance.”

Allan suggested at that very point, “Why don’t we just get one for them to play?”

Me, “One?! You must be joking! They will fight for it like hell!”

Allan, “Ok then lets get 2 of them then.”

But deep in our heart we know that to buy this auspicious lion during this season will be paying too much above it original value.

Allan, “So long as they like it.”

So we bought 2 at S$18 each. It was the cheapest we found. Everywhere else that sells the same size were going at S$26 and above.

Its a good buy afterall, we thought. Anyway they were in cloud nine when we paid for the heads.

The moment they reach home, they went crazy with it and started to dance with the head and with the Lion Dance VCD which we bought last year.

See how sweaty they are after the vigorous dance. Good exercise afterall I guess. The shirts were so wet that I needed to get them changed before I bathe them later. ‘cos I know the 2nd dance will start again after a short rest.

Then we spotted these 2 mini size ones in one of the small shops around. “Mummy, I want this, I want this!” Its S$3.90 each, so we thought, what the heck, just get it.

The heads are on spring, so they shake when you touch their heads.They are car ornaments. You know, those springy cutie stuff that you put on your dashboard of the car and when you drive, they starts to bounce up and down.

Lion Dance usually comes with Dragon Dance.

This is one huge dragon that happen to be around our neighbourhood. Luckily the boys are not so much into this. I can’t imagine how cramp our place would be if they insisted to bring even a mini size home. The actual one can go up to 20metres long!