Passport

We took Arnold to the postoffice yesterday. He is an American citizen. We filled out a form, submitted 2 passport photos of his, paid $52 to US Department of State and $32 to USPS. It's cheaper to take passport photos at Costco. The cost is $4.99 for 2 pictures. You get charged $15 at the Postal Service office for 2 passport photos though. I guess they blackmail people because they have no other choices if they're already standing in the line.

The officer said we wouldn't receive the passport till end of March. Bureaucracy is the same in every country. We also figured out why Arnold was waking up early in the past few days - he didn't have enough to eat at dinner time and woke up starving. I nursed him last night and he slept till past 6 am today. Biajee refused to take responsibility for that because Arnold always thinks the milk bottle is a toy. Whenever I have to work late, Arnold doesn't eat enough for supper.

Arnold has almost fully recovered from his circumcision. He pees into his bathwater 50% of the time. At first, Biajee would hurry and change the whole basin of water for him, but now we just bathe him with his urine from time to time. It really doesn't smell at all since the majority of his food is still breast milk.