Dahlia's First Christmas and Boxing Day 25 Dec 2006

Here are pictures of Dahlia during her first Christmas holiday season in Melbourne.

In the photo at the far right are my parents, Mr & Mrs HC Chan, brother (Dr. KW Chan) and sister in law (Dr. FL Chao), who are with Dahlia in the living room.

Friends in Melbourne 2006

Left: Suriani, Dahlia, Tyler and Samantha at the Jessie MacPherson Hospital at Monash Hospital

Middle left: Joh Yiong and JF

Middle right: Andy and Shirley Lim

Right: Carita and John MacGregor

Friends in Melbourne

We had the pleasure of visits from Sukanya and Veronica, friends from our MBA days at Monash (photo at right).

This Christmas is also special as we caught up with Jeremy, Nelson and Wendy Fung again. Jeremy will be in Year 11 and Nelson Year 7, in 2007.

Wan Dahlia sleeping

Dahlia seems to be able to sleep anywhere, even if it is noisy.

She must have got used to a "less than quiet" environment when she was at the hospital - which is a great thing, as she is able to sleep outside, at restaurants, etc.

She looks like so much like her mom in the photo with the blue blanket.

Dahlia at the hospital days before coming home

Here's Wan Dahlia in hospital a few days before coming home.

Summer's here

1 december 2006 and it's Dahlia's first summer in Melbourne.

Here are some pics of her at home, enjoying her life of sleep, feeds, burps and nappy changes.

Wan Dahlia comes home 29 Nov 06

Wan Dahlia was discharged from the special care nursery on Wed 29 Nov 06.

She has a baby cot in our bedroom with all the necessary equipment (bottle warmers, steam and milton sterilisers, etc) handy.

As you may have guessed, we had little sleep that first night as we had to get up every few hours to feed and burp her. We also changed her regularly with hre Huggies Newborn nappies. Huggies are easy to use and good value.

She is now 2.3kg and looking more like her mom everyday!