been a crazy week trying to sort out all kinds of things before getting onto that jet plane to Dili.... today i even made a trip down to ShunLi Industrial Park to grab a mossie buster after they sold out at Parkway Parade. The things parents do for their kids.. Sigh.. i am only just beginning to realise that now.... But at least, i have one less worry about Val catching dengue or malaria - both very nasty illnesses and totally preventable. There's no way he should be eating any prophylaxis and he can't be creamed with repellent (even though its deet free and child-friendly and organic!) 24/7, so this mossie buster is our best hope. i do hope it kills those awful things! Most of my friends' children (the local babes) are veteran sufferers of both the mossie diseases and they re-infect so regularly, it's scary. So i really don't want Val to be bitten at all. So far i myself have been lucky in my 2.5 years there i've never (*touch wood*) been stung by a dengue/malaria-carrying mossie.
I started packing today and there's soooo much to bring --- in my mind - visions of a very bored and thus cranky Val scares me to bits. How will i ever keep the lil un entertained? should i bring all the toys he has inherited with him or leave it to the intervention of God? Should we bring the sturdy old stroller we were given or buy a new and lightweight one? How about his food? How much of the oatmeal/ brown rice should we pack along? Questions questions questions. I may be a veteran backpacker but this time i'm really rather overwhelmed by this whole baby packing thing. what about a high chair? i never thought to check out these things in Dili whilst i was pregnant. arggh... i guess the stroller will suffice.
anyways, just 2 more days to say goodbye once more to the creature comforts of home to the dusty streets of Dili...
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