IKEA!

When you live in Dili, you learn to procure necessities any which way you can (remember our fresh organic turkey flown in and wrestled from the claws of customs for our Thanksgiving this year?)  So it was that we had a much-needed stop-over in Singapore to pick up a few critical items, including new towel and toilet roll holders, new eating utensils and a high chair (yes, seriously).  We stayed in a lovely hotel off Orchard Road, the main shopping and dining destination in Singapore - and hit the stores early on January 2nd.  I am happy to report that we survived both Toys R' Us (we had a very traumatic experience there last year when my dad tried to buy his pregnant kids a stroller and all we left with were latches for our fridge to keep the baboons out), and IKEA, in one day!  Luka was a trooper, riding along in his stroller, stopping every few hours for a breast or other feed.

Test-driving a sporty high chair in IKEA in Singapore.

While we were unable to find a mattress to fit his third-hand cot in Dili (who knew the Australian 'standard' cot size is different than just about everywhere else in the world?).  We did find a nice high chair though, which, thanks to bumping into Chris' former colleague in the check-in line, we managed to check without paying any overweight charges.

Now we just need to figure out who will bring us a mattress from Aus...