World Traveler!

Josh's passport arrived in the mail today! We will be traveling with my family between Christmas and New Years to Curacao and knew we needed to get Josh a passport for the trip. We decided to wait until he could sit up to get his pictures taken, but then were a little slow figuring out what we needed to do. When the government shutdown happened we (ehem, Julian) had a bit of a freakout over getting his passport in time, since we had been procrastinating on doing it. Julian made an appointment to get it all done at our local post office. Both parents need to appear in person to apply, and we were fortunate that the post office also takes pictures (since we did not have our act together to take one ourselves that meets the requirements). Unfortunately, the night before our appointment...Josh came down with a fever! He was not himself at all, so we were very worried that it would not go well to get his picture taken. Luckily, he rebounded quickly and everything went much smoother than we expected. At the post office, they had me hold Josh up in front of the background and were able to get a shot of him looking at the camera in only 2 tries! It only took about 2 weeks to get the passport back, even without doing a rush order. Seeing his picture on a official USA passport today really hit me, that our baby is ready to travel the world!