Red Eggs and Ginger

This weekend the Woo and Mailer families celebrated my one month birthday. In chinese custom this is the 'Red Egg and Ginger' celebration. Everyone came to Sydney to cuddle me and ... well ... eat red eggs and ginger!  The eggs we supplied by Granny and Grandpa Mailer's chooks in Scone and they were delicious. Great family effort.

Traditionally this is the time parents announce the baby's name - but of course mine was announced earlier in my life! You maybe wondering how my middle name came about. My parents wanted to use my Mum's surname as the generation marker, just like my second cousin James Wu Shen Bignell. I was very lucky to have a number of people in Perth AND Singapore to help find my middle name - Woo-Zhi - which means integrity and determination.

 

This is me in a VERY special christening gown that is around 100 years old and completely hand stitched. My Daddy was christened in it, as was my Great Grandma!

Another costume change for dinner. It was my first restaurant dining experience and I was soooo well behaved. I fell asleep in a corner of the action-packed Marigold Chinese Restaurant!