Mummy's soft spot..

Lil' sweetheart,

Mummy wonders if you are having sweet dreams about your Sentosa trip or are you still angry with daddy and mummy in your dreams right now.. Cos one moment you are smiling, yet the next your lips curve downwards, eyes shut tighter, looking all ready to cry..

Earlier today, daddy and mummy brought you, your cousin and grandparents to Sentosa.. But you slept through the journey to harbour front, as well as the cable car ride.. Only after we reached Sentosa, did you wake up.. Perhaps it was the comfort of being wheeled around in your stroller, you were happily looking all around you.. Our darling seemed to have forgotten its milk time! So daddy and mummy just let you continue your visual adventure.. Until we reached the Merlion walk did you start to cry for milk..

Our lil' darling looked so happy today.. Always looking around so curiously! When we were queueing to take the cable car ride back, the facilitator asked daddy and mummy how old are you.. We told him, "7 weeks old".. And he was like, "7 weeks old and already travelling!" =) Yea, I gotta agree with him, you are one lucky baby, sweetheart... I don't think I got to step foot onto Sentosa before I was 3 yrs old?? Maybe even older..

Anyway, you were a happy baby all throughout the outing today... Until you reached home.. As usual, the moment we put you down onto your 'rocking chair', you started your 'serenade'... Mummy tried to coo you, pat you, let you have the pacifier, rock you.. You simply refused to stop 'singing'.. Daddy said it's becos you were too comfortable in your stroller today.. And now, you want someone to carry/wheel you around.. But, mummy told daddy, maybe you are not feeling well.. So granny helped you massge your tummy with the Ru-yi medicated oil.. Well, you really seemed to enjoy it, cos you actually quietened down--for a while.. After you got tired of lying there, your sing-a-long started again..



Mummy then picked you up and put you back in your cot.. Your karaoke session got louder and louder... Daddy thought you might be thirsty, so he gave you some water.. But you refused.. And our lil' darling can't be hungry becos you just had 120mls of milk.. So daddy's initial conclusion was right: Lil' Princess is throwing one of her tantrums!

And so you cried and cried and cried... Daddy lectured and lectured and lectured you... Neither willing to give in.. In the end, mummy did it again..

Darling Raeanne cried until your voice was turning hoarse.. Mummy could bear it no longer and pleaded with daddy.. Daddy had no choice but to pick you up and naughty lil' princess became quiet immediately... Yes, IMMEDIATELY! Mummy then took you over from daddy, and you fell asleep almost there and then..

When mummy held you in my arms, patting you to sleep, mummy's heart was still aching for you.. Cos you were crying so bitterly.. But mummy's equally disappointed with you too.. How could you use your tears to blackmail us??

Daddy's probably very disappointed with mummy too.. Cos we had decided together that we've to let you cry till you realise that's not the way to get whatever you want.. Yet, time and again, mummy's always the one who don't have the heart to see through it till the end.. (Yep, that happened 2 nights ago too.. You cried from 11 plus pm till ~4am..) No wonder there's this saying "慈母多败儿".. Sigh, am I turning into one of them?

Our precious lil' Raeanne, daddy and mummy love you very much.. And it is precisely so that we know we shouldn't spoil you.. Looks like mummy's gotta learn to block out my soft spot for you.. For this is all for your own good.. Or perhaps, mummy should just disappear at times like this and let daddy discipline you..

Darling Raeanne, can you understand daddy and mummy's good intentions?