10 days old and time for first beer festival

So we've made it to 10 days. The baby is true to form: lots of sleeping, lots of feeding and lots of bowel movements. Not hugely responsive, but not a lot of work really. Andrea is getting on with work with the baby next to her at home (her team are basing themselves out of our apartment whilst Andrea still recovers - she's mostly recovered now). I'm on paternity leave without a lot to do.

Hannah has now had 3 days at kindergarten. Its going ok, made easier by being in the same class as her best friend, but she's still shy around all the others in the class and the other teachers. I'm sure she'll be fine in due course. In a sign of the times we get regular photos and updates from the teacher during the day on WeChat and there is a WeChat group for the parents to be kept informed of developments by the school.

She's loving Leah - always wanting to watch her, touch her and play with her. She's almost forgotten about Lei Lei (her doll), though this evening she played at another friend's house and spent a while having tea with her doll. Everything about Hannah is incredibly adorable at this age - what she says, what she does, how she dances, her desires (to wash hands). I'm sure Leah will be just the same in a couple of years too.

For those who don't know a lot about Chinese culture, we break all the rules. The mother is not supposed to go out the house for a month (or have a shower); the baby is supposed to be kept in for a month or more and you should get a special nanny in for the first month to look after both the mother and the baby. We've not been taking the baby out a lot, since the air pollution has spiked this week, but she's been out and about and we get some strange comments and stares from the neighbors (even though she's so big she looks like she's already a month old). We also gave our nanny a couple weeks off since there is so little for her to do! When we take Leah to her first beer festival tomorrow we'll probably get away with it as it will mostly be foreigners there! The craft beer scene in China only began 3 years ago but has really taken off, and not only amongst foreigners. Many local restaurants now serve craft beers on tap from some of the local breweries. I have to hope Shenzhen, where I'll move in a month or so, will be the same.

Meanwhile we've reached an interesting time in the HK issue - I guess we'll know shortly if the protests will die out or be reignited; my new running watch finally arrived from amazon (it was weird having to take a mobile phone out of my pocket all the time just to know the time); and Andrea and I both got fed up with our broken phones and got new ones: OnePlus Ones, which are 4G and fantastic so far.