So one thing for a strategic planner like myself which is hard to accept: your ability to control timing and execution with a baby is significantly impaired.  We had planned to go to the US Consulate this morning to sort out Kai’s passport and other things.  To make a long and boring story short, I probably needed to add an extra hour of buffer in the morning to get to where we needed to be on time.

Luckily, it wasn’t mission critical (no international travel tomorrow or anything) so Chika and I took the opportunity of Kai sleeping in his car seat (after 30 minutes of waiting for a taxi that never showed) to have coffee and cake at our local bio cafe.  Maybe Kai is helping us to stop and spend some time on each other, rather than just being drones in the geo-political paper work machine.