Gender Reveal Party
Last minute, my cousin Chi Ba (Van) gave me a brilliant idea to have a gender reveal party to share the gender of babyDragon to our family! So we had pink, blue, and white balloons everywhere, ordered yummy Vietnamese catering, and got pink and blue paper plates and napkins to fill out the theme of the party. We made some trivia game questions, and more for some fun activities for our guests. Khoa wore a pink shirt and I wore a blue shirt to throw everyone off so they don’t know what the gender is! Lastly, we placed the giant box with the gender color balloons in the corner of the room for everyone to see and ponder what’s inside that can reveal the long awaited answer! =) It was fun to see everyone guessing with reasons/or lack of reason for their guessing. The most memorable though would be our friend Roger, who was so confident with his guess, that he even brought a giant “It’s a Girl” balloon!!! That was so awesome too see, it just made this even so much more exciting!
We organized 3 games for everyone to play. The first one was filled up a jar with pink and white Hershey’s kisses and told people to write down the guesses on how many pink candy and how many white candy pieces there were. We couldn’t find any blue candy with the short amount of time we had to plan, so we went with white. The second game was a list of trivia questions about statistics of boy and girl babies, and the 3rd was a list of Old Wives Tales about how to tell the gender of a baby, and whether those tales applied to me or not. We also had a betting poll, where people can place their bets on whether babyDragon was a boy or girl! The games were a lot of fun and we gave away Starbucks gift cards as prizes. We had a special prize for one person, and that was for my dearest dad! Every 12 years, the same zodiac animal appears, and this year, is the year of the dragon. However, there are 5 different elements that associate with the animal, and so the same type of dragon only appears every 60 years. This 
year, my dad and babyDragon will be the same exact dragon, the Water Dragon, I mean really, how often does this ever happen?? So we wanted to recognize this special moment and bond that our baby will have with my dad!
The games and food were a big hit and so finally, it’s time for the big reveal! We got our parents up front and brought the box to them, and we announced that what comes out of the box will be the grand reveal! So our parents eagerly dug into the box, like little kids on christmas day opening a giant present, waiting to see what’s inside! Then the flaps open and of course, PINK balloons fly out everywhere!! IT’S A GIRL!!! Our families cannot be more ecstatic to finally know that our baby will be a precious princess! We would like to thank all our friends and family for coming to share this moment with us, and of course, to my sister, Jennifer, for capturing all this on video. Check out her video she made for us!!
Oh Boy! Or Girl? from J.N. on Vimeo.
