Life of a yummy baby ... and now there are 2!!!!!

With Morgan around, Christmas seems to take on a whole new meaning. Firstly we have our usual family reunion and secondly, a special Christmas service to celebrate the day that Christ was born. Christmas is an especially magical time for children in cold countries because one can look forward to the lights, snowmen, angels and christmas tree, ..... and Father Christmas sliding his way down the chimney with his sackful of presents - ho ho ho! I am not a believer of Father Christmas, neither do I come from a background where people celebrate Christmas as a yearly tradition but I actually find myself enjoying Christmas like a little kid! The reason being I have always lived in a hot country all my life. The days of counting down to Christmas, waiting for snow and passing winter solstice (the shortest day was on the 21st December) is all part of the excitement working up to 25 December.

I tried to involve Morgan to contribute his first artistic masterpiece for grandma's dining room, with some help from mummy of course. This year - we reuse and recycle - so we used every bit of whatever resources available to make the decorations look fabulous at no extra cost. We also helped to wrap presents, put up the lights and decorate the Christmas tree. In between which I had to stop Morgan from pulling off the decorations, dragging tinsels about and kicking the presents around like footballs ... argh!













Some excerpts on Christmas Day -


Mam-gu's getting tad-cu to finish off the sausage bacon while Morgan was busy eyeing the turkey.

Christmas crackers and party-hats are good ideas to liven up the party though we could hardly keep the party crown stay on Morgan's head!












This Christmas Morgan learnt to enjoy the thrill of unraveling his presents through tearing up the wrappers in the most merciless manner. Thank you to many of our friends and relatives, from near and overseas, for sending him your thoughts, gifts and heaps of presents. We are so lucky that he's so loved by everyone we know.

On Boxing day we were extremely fortunate to be paid a visit by Lewis's cousin, Catherine Brown who, from all the way in Canada, had come to visit Morgan, accompanied by her nieces Rachael and Miriam. Watching the gulls, recollecting thoughts and meeting old friends - it was a lovely way to end the day and to a beautiful year of 2007.



Here's what we did for Morgan's first Christmas .....