Last night, I had my daughter sleep beside me. I thought that with windows closed, mosquitoes couldn't go hunting. I was horribly wrong - one window wasn't closed at all, and I thought it was.From time to time, I would get up and swing the mosquito racket against the air just to check if I would catch a mosquito or not (I did, more than 20 of them). At first, I caught 5 and I thought that was a reasonable number that stayed in the room after I closed the window. Then I noticed a couple of boggies (airforce parlance for enemy planes) passed above my face while reading WSJ. So I put down the papers and search for the boggies; I found them and caught them.
So I went back reading the papers. And I saw another couple of mosquitoes... not two, three of them... And this went one for the next couple of hours. Around 12am, that's the only time I realized that we are under attack and the perimeter was breached (actually left open).So I simply closed the window and sanitized the area. One or two survived because before we went to sleep, KT's face had around 5 hits from the mosquitoes. When we woke up, her right eyelid is swollen and her forehead is all red.
Next time - double-check and triple-check!!! Or simply let her sleep in the crib with mosquite net installed....
My wife will surely kill me for this when she sees our baby...
Epilogue: In the morning, my mom told me that parents normally learn the hardware. And she reminded me that we have a mosquito net with us that she was hoping I installed it last night. Now I remember!
