Christmas has been and gone, but the memories live on in photos... Hannah experienced a lot of "firsts" while she spent Christmas in Port Dickson (her maternal grandparent's home). She played with wrapping paper (infinitely more engrossing than the gift itself, much to her parents' embarrassment!), she saw roti canai being made on Christmas morning, she saw lots of cute chicks at the market, she went swimming for the first time...

Now, taking Hannah swimming required a little bit of preparation. First we needed a swimsuit. Not easy to find for a 5 month-old baby!!! But we took a chance with a swimsuit for 18 month-olds and, well, see the pictures to judge whether it fitted. All I can say is that Hannah is clearly getting a few spare tyres round her tummy, legs, arms, chin...

Next we needed some kind of float. Well, we had been given a rather cool inflatable baby boat (with leg holes) a few weeks earlier, so Cindy set about blowing it up.

And finally we needed a swimming pool. Now, one of the nicest places in PD (if you ever go there) is the Yacht Club, and rather conveniently Cindy's father is a life member. That means free access to their swimming pool. So we turned up on Boxing Day morning, nice and early to avoid the crowd. So early, in fact, that the pool wasn't really open! Never mind, no-one was going to stop a 5-month old in a fluorescent-orange swimsuit having a splash in the kiddies pool.

Did she like it? I would say she took to it like a duck to, well... water. It was a little cold to start with , but after a while she was happily reclining in her baby boat, waiting for Mummy or Daddy to tug her around. The next time we are in PD, we are definitely going to the Yacht Club again.

The picture below is a link to Hannah's Web Albums. You may have seen the link on the right-hand side that appeared a few weeks ago. You can go there anytime to get a Hannah-overdose. Every few weeks we will add to the collection of photos. They are of a decent resolution, so they should be good enough for downloading and printing, too.

So come and have a look at Hannah' First Christmas. Just click the picture below:

Hannah's First Christmas

And how was YOUR Christmas? Do tell us your stories.