Day 224 10/2/12 Peruvian ID

I was one of the first awake today, but not before Nestor who was complaining of a headache but went out early to work in a factory making metal doors.
We planned to go to Reniec today, the government office, to get Michael’s national ID card issued. These days every Peruvian has an ID card, even babies, and these can be check anytime especially on the buses. So we need this fixed before we travel to Mentushari in the jungle.

We went first to “the cousins” photo business to get Michael’s official photo taken, in his tiger suit,



and there we met baby Curly. Not sure how to spell her name yet but they didn’t know it was appropriate for a curly little girl.



Michael was given a push along toy butterfly to play with on a long plastic stick. He quickly detached the butterfly, discarded it and had a great time bashing things with the stick. I love him very much.



For tactical reasons Bob and I went to the offices with Rocio but let her take Michael in alone. We have had problems with them there before. If Rocio has anyone with her they are desperate to speak to that person not Rocio. They have even gone so far before as to ask Rocio to get an adult to sign her forms for her. This rightly infuriates her. The mother of my boy is in fact herself an adult and quite capable of talking for herself and signing their forms. So she was in and out quite quickly whilst Bob and I sat in a cafe drinking Inka Kola (a real favourite just because of the name and despite it tasting like bubblegum).
Michael likes all this action. He loves to be out and about and if tired can easily sleep in the new sling. All in all he is very happy here though he seems to be getting much more clingy at nights strangely. He sleeps in the bad with us as he mostly did in England towards the end but he won’t let Rocio go even a centimetre or so from him and if she goes to the loo without him in the night he always notices and screams until she comes back. Nothing I can do as daddy makes any difference.