Happy New Year

Happy New Year everybody! This morning, Annabelle bid farewell to the year of the tiger and welcomed the year of the rabbit :)

I'm going to take a cue from my friend Kate and take this chance to introduce Annabelle's Chinese name. As a little background, we'll start with Kris' name. The first character in his name is Ying (obviously, the family name). Because Kris is part of the 36th generation of Ying's the last character of his name (pronounced yan) means carrying far. His brother, cousin and he all have the same character in their names. The middle character (pronounced sing) means voice.




So, now on to Annabelle's name. The first character, again, is Ying. the second character was chosen by Kris' uncle because his son had the first daughter in the 37th generation of Ying's. It is pronounced kie and means fair. The last character was chosen by Kris' mom. It is pronounced fown and means phoenix. She chose this name because she has always really like this character. Here's Annabelle's Chinese name in her grandma's beautiful handwriting...