A Little Ham - A Golden Pig!

Talk about luck, timing and pure coincidence! For those who know us, we've always referred to our baby as "a little ham" - both an acronym play on our initials, and of course, a play on how my hubby, myself and of course our baby, are all hams, in the theatrical sense, hamming it up.

Anyhow - little did we know how appropriate the nickname "a little ham" would be.

At our last birthing class, we were informed by one of our classmates, that today, feb 18th marks the beginning of the chinese year of the pig! BUT even better, this year, not only is it the year of the pig, it is the "year of the golden pig!" which happens only every 600 years!

In China and Korea, people born in the year of the golden pig will experience super luck and wealth! It is considered a very fortunate time to be born, so much so that they expect the birth rates in both China and Korea to skyrocket this year, and our classmate who recently visited Chinatown here and showed off her pregnant belly, said that all the Chinese people there were rubbing her belly and were in awe and jealous of the fact that she would be fortunate enough to deliver in the "year of the golden pig."

Learn more here, and here.

Who knew our little ham would turn out to be a golden pig!