Little Miss TomCat has landed!

[blackcat20]

First Mother's Day for you BC. Enjoy.

Someone forgot to tell the little one I wanted a sleep in

 

[Pushka]

Someone forgot to tell the little one I wanted a sleep in

Where was TomV?

 

[blackcat20]

Where was TomV?

Working night shift. She decided to party at 3am.

 

[blackcat20]

She’s made it up to me with nine hours straight last night.

 

[QF WP]

Congratulations on the first Mothers Day. See, she felt so bad that she wanted to make it up to you. Although long sleeps whilst breastfeeding isn’t in your best interest either (according to Mrs QF WP).

Whilst I’m in MEL today and tomorrow I’d decided against visiting because of the expected sleep deprivation issues @blackcat20 and @TomVexille, plus I have an 8am meeting tomorrow . Might give you a call - I’ll be back again a couple of times this year.

 

[blackcat20]

Apparently BDM have a backlog at the moment, we’re still waiting for her birth certificate. And we can’t apply for her passport without it. Calling gets a busy line, and when you do get answered the wait times are crazy.

 

[blackcat20]

Two hours on hold to speak to someone, and they've put a rush on it. Should have it by end of next week. Now to decide if we risk a standard passport application or rush that one....

 

[love_the_life]

Probably to be on the safe side, I'd go for expedited.

 

[blackcat20]

Probably to be on the safe side, I'd go for expedited.

I think we probably will just for peace of mind. Glad we decided against going to NZ for the long weekend, we'd never have been sorted in time.

 

[Dr_Goz]

Peace of mind = go for the rush job.

Our first international flight with the baby was at 6 weeks, didn't want to leave anything to chance, can't imagine how stressful it would've been creeping closer to the date without the documents.

 

[blackcat20]

We finally have a birth certificate

 

[Pushka]

We finally have a birth certificate

How long did it take?

 

[blackcat20]

How long did it take?

Almost 8 weeks

 

[Pushka]

Almost 8 weeks

That’s ridiculous. Glad you finally got it and will pass that info along to the family to get onto theirs when the time comes.

 

[zig]

Almost 8 weeks

Wow, I'm surprised by how long that has taken.
On the other hand, if you aren't a FF it may not be an issue

 

[blackcat20]

That’s ridiculous. Glad you finally got it and will pass that info along to the family to get onto theirs when the time comes.

Make sure they register the birth and request the certificate online. Apparently our mistake was taking the form in in person...one would have thought it shouldn’t have made any difference.

Wow, I'm surprised by how long that has taken.
On the other hand, if you aren't a FF it may not be an issue

Us too, we expected it to take the stated 28 days but that’s from them ‘receiving’ it. Despite us lodging it in March they only processed it as being received in May glad we scrapped a plan to go to NZ, we wouldn’t have been ready. And this is with bub arriving over three weeks earlier than we’d expected.

 

[blackcat20]

Now that the birth certificate is sorted, we're battling to get passports. Aus passport should be ready this week (paid for expedited), and now we tackle her US citizenship and passport.

Oh, and she's 12 weeks already!

 

[love_the_life]

OMG she's nearly all grown up! 3 months already.

 

[blackcat20]

OMG she's nearly all grown up! 3 months already.

She’s certainly got some teenage attitude today

 

[Cruiser Elite]

She’s certainly got some teenage attitude today

Just slap her!!!