Where no baby has gone before

It is true that by the time the next baby comes a long, parents are a lot more blase about them. With the twins, we were terrified about taking them out, let alone travelling with them. By the time Muffin came about, Packrat and I were quite adept with managing the twins on our own and I was quite happy to look after Muffin on my own. It helped that he was cheery, a creature of habit and easy to entertain.

All this built a certain amount of confidence in us as parents. So much so that we started toying with the idea of taking them on vacation. All the lofty and somewhat condescending comments we had made about other parents travelling with young children duly went out the window as we became one of those parents, keen to travel with two 3 year olds and an infant in arms.

It helped that Singapore Air had cheap fares for the weekend. We decided almost on the spot to bring the entire family to Perth. The only thing we were short of and realised just as we were going to click "Proceed with Payment" was the fact that little Muffin had no passport.


So there was a race to get a mugshot of Muffin and then an online battle with the passport service to actually submit the application.

















I'm not sure if it is finally in because the screen froze at the payment page but tickets are bought and the little Muffin will be off on his first trip at a tender age of 7 months.

I'm quite thrilled that we're actually doing this. I think we'll probably need another vacation to recover from this one but I feel a ridiculous amount of fuzzy happiness knowing that all we're taking all of them on a vacation to a country with blue skies, lots of space, water, clean air, cool weather and good food.


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