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Spending the last day of 2010 with my two favourite people.

When I started this 365 Project, and commited to taking a photo on my phone every day for an entire year, I had no idea that what I thought would be a record of our life here in Shanghai would end up documenting such a personal journey instead. It has been a wonderful, bizarre, challenging and rewarding year, and I am so glad to have this photographic record of it.

Farewell 2010, let's see what 2011 brings!

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She has more friends than I do...

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Baby, that's no way to treat your mother!

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Her first bottle with Papa.

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Photos to show her first boyfriend.

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It's a wrap!

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Santa came!

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Christmas Eve at home in Shanghai.

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My little Christmas Elf

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Another hideous Christmas tree- this particular over-grown toilet brush costs AUD$180!

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Splish splash! The French conjugations written on the wall are for me to learn, not her.

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Look what Santa left under our tree!

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A cheeky face at bathtime!

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Anaïs is less impressed by the toys than the fish tank.

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Anaïs and I with Yolanta, the fantastic Doula we had asa labour support person for her delivery.

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Hideous Christmas trees for sale in Shanghai- these trees cost AUD$500 each!

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 You can tell new parents by the size of their coffees!

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Watching tv with her Papa

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a week after she was born, Anaïs and I made it out to a cafe for lunch... it was quite the achievement!

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the 12th of December was a rare snowy day in Shanghai. We enjoyed it from the warmth of our window seat.

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receiving her first mail- from Max and Emil, her baby friends in Beijing.

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All rugged up to go out.

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Anaïs enjoying a morning nap in the sun.

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Her Chinese birth certificate... pretty cool.

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Bundled up ready to leave the hospital

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First weigh-in from the day she was born.

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Anaïs and I having some skin to skin contact time.

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First photo with mama and papa from the day she was born

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4 days and 16 hours after my water broke ahe finally arrives! Anaïs Emilie was born at 6:01pm, Friday the 3rd of December in Shanghai China, weighing 3.16kg and measuring 49cm. This is her first photo.

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Still in labour- second day of induction, 4 days after my water broke. This is the hospital hallway I paced between contractions.

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The fetal monitor measuring contraction strength and frequency and the baby's response to it. This is after starting Pitocin induction 3 days after my water broke.

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My water broke on the 29th November and I was admitted to the hospital tostart the process of induction on the 1st December. This photo was of monitoring my contractions to see if I was in labour or not (I was only in pre-labour).

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Being silly with our ultrasound scan

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Crocodile rock- Crocs made by the kids in my nursery class.

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A squished face but the most beautiful ear in the world- a 3d
ultrasound of our baby at 36 weeks of pregnancy. The image is not
clear as her head has descended into the pelvis.

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Pipidog or dog pee pee? Either way it's an odd name for a baby body
wash... We stuck with good old johnson & johnson's.

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Wasting time with silly iPhone applications- our friends Till and
Steffi's baby Emil... Two months old and already so suave.

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The orange cylinder on the back of the furthest motor scooter is a
speaker, that was blaring a techno version of John Denver's 'Take me
home, country roads' so loudly I could hear it four lanes away with my
window closed. Just plain wrong.

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Guests at my baby shower playing the 'name that poop' game- players
have to correctly identify the melted chocolate bar in each nappy.

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Still JUST fitting on the kid's bikes at school.

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What to do with old CDs/DVDs? The two year olds in my nursery class
assembled these great fish.

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Another cartoon by Hoby- this time depicting my love and adoration for
my pregnancy body pillow.

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From the 35 week scan of our baby. She had her face squished up
against the uterus wall so it's not a very clear image. We were
surprised to actually see her sleeping for the first time ever.

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A closer view of the same method of wrapping scaffolding that turned a
whole apartment building in Shanghai into a tinderbox on the 15th
November.

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My round pregnant belly turned square by a little foot being poked out
the side.

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The icing on the cake...

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More proof why Chinese girls with the taste sophistication of a six
year old should not get to choose the colours of their cars... Ruining
an otherwise perfectly good Ferrari.

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A lovely open air meat vendor.

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Phil took this photo in the southern Chinese island of Hainan- all the
tuk-tuk (motorcycle taxi) drivers her saw there were woman, and in
their spare time they all make/mend fishing nets for spare cash. This
is in sharp contrast to the male tuk-tuk drivers in the rest of the
country who simply sleep sprawled on their bikes when they don't have
a fare.

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Me, as the Cat in the Hat, for our school book month parade.