Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Eli's World Tour

After arriving in Madison on Tuesday, Shelby and I realized that we are leaving for Brazil in less than 10 weeks - and we don't have a passport for Eli yet! Yesterday we learned that Kinkos doesn't take passport photos of babies, so we had to schedule a portrait sitting at a photo studio. Fortunately, Eli was wearing reasonable nice clothes and was in a smiling mood. 



The notion of having baby pictures in a passport seems silly. By the time Eli is even 1 year old, he won't resemble his passport picture. Yet, rules are rules. So we picked up the portraits this morning and submitted them, along with a mountain of other paperwork, to the State Department for passport processing.

We also stopped by the pediatrician yesterday. Eli is now tipping the scales at 11 Lb, 14 Oz. He is still very small for his age, approximately the 5th percentile.


1 comment:

Unknown said...

We just got Elizabeth's passport a couple of months ago (the post office, it turns out, is willing take appropriately goofy-looking passport pictures of babies) and it took about 1.5 weeks to arrive. We were amazed--I guess the government finally hired enough people to process applications.

Is it possible that Eli is getting even cuter?