No body told us that parenting is the cause of deteriorating memory. Last month, Jaime forgot to bring his passport to the airport for the first time in his life (only to find out later that I forgot about putting it in my purse earlier). Last Thursday, we realized that neither Jaime nor Joaquin had China visa required to attend my brother's wedding in Guangzhou on Saturday. Jaime remembered that he needed a haircut for the wedding and I remembered to ask for a crib at the hotel. The need to apply for the visa however never entered our mind...
We had to smuggle Jaime into Guangzhou since he was able to get a landing visa into Shenzhen Special Economic Zone on the day of. Technically, he was not allowed outside of SZSEZ but practically such monitoring system is not in place so we were able to attend the wedding.
Joaquin on the other hand was not as lucky. We actually brought him all the way to the border, hoping we can get him visa but the Chinese government decided that a 5-month-old can potentially pose threat since he has never applied for a formal visa before. We had to part with him at the border and had our helper bring him home. His stroller and diapers attended the wedding with us instead.
