The first day of the lunar year

Yesterday is was the first day of the lunar year. We usually pay a New Year's call visit to our relatives and friends.

My parents-in-law, husband, and I took our little baby to my uncle's house to eat dinner. My sister and her darling (who is this? her daughter?) drove a car to pick us up to there at 3:00 P.M. When we got to the house, a roomful of people were chatting, watching TV, cooking, and playing games... when we got there.

My baby was is just 7 months old. and It was the his first time to meeting so many relatives, so he was very shy with strangers. So we stayed in the bedroom and looked after him. His grandfathers, grandmothers, and aunts all went into the room to see him. They tried to hold him, then him but he cried. LOL.

I stayed with my baby and ate the dinner, when while my mother-in-law took care of him. Question: did you stay in the room with your baby and eat dinner there, or did your mother in law take care of him while you went and had dinner with everyone else?) After dinner, it has been was dark outside. We need left needed to leave early, so my elder sister's husband picked us up to return home.

Oh, my another (if you have only one more elder sister, you can use "other", if you have even more elder sisters, then I would write her name, or her birth order. e.g. "my sister Brooke", or "my second-oldest sister") elder sister gave me 2 plush toy houses to me. She said she remembered that last year was my "big year." In my country, when we are 12, 24, 36, etc. years old, the year is called "本命年", or "big year." I said on the interent Internet that I liked the a plush toy house that she had bought. (I am not sure if i can use "my big year", in my country, when we are 12, 24, 36... years old, the year is call "本命年".)

Thanks a lot of my sisters. I am very grateful to my sisters. They treat me so nice well.

It's 00:40 am (in the U.S. most of us would say 12:40 am) here, and I am still sitting before my computer. Just now I just finished this, and now I'm going to go to bed.

Good night, the friends from italki. If you want to do a language exchange languages with me or make friends with me, just send me a message. ^^

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You did a great job! I enjoyed reading your essay. Also, my daughter cried a lot when she met strangers when she was a baby. 

I moved your note about 本命年 into your essay, as it nicely explained the concept. The closest we have to 本命年 is 30, 40, etc., but we don't really have a name for it here. 

keep up the good work! It was all immediately comprehensible, and most of the changes are small fixes.