Ohana Arakaki: Mylee's 1-month Celebration

Monday, June 30, 2008

Mylee's 1-month Celebration

We celebrated Mylee turning exactly 1-month old today. It's a big deal in the Vietnamese culture to do so with some traditions that I looked up below since I was curious as to why it's important to celebrate........Based on the Buddhist family, in the morning of the baby’s 30th day, sacrifices are offered to the gods so that the gods will care for the baby in his following life. Furthermore, in the morning of the baby’s 30th day, it is also the time to inform officially to all ancestors that the new member of the family so they will protect the newborn baby. On that day, several relatives and closed friends of parents are invited to have a small party. The purpose of the party is the chance for relatives and friends have a look at the newborn, pray for him/her a good life and give the newborn baby gifts. These are mostly old superstitions but we still carried some of it through to take this time to celebrate with the family.

Here's Mylee with her special Lilikoi pies that I made her. These are the same pies that I made for her Big Sis Makayla too during her 1-month celebration. We also tried to take the exact same photo as we did for Makayla with her pies while sitting in her Papasan.