Thursday, September 13, 2012

The triplets and how i became the baby whisperer

Ummi and me always argue who is the better parent...who got the skillz....My take is that i'm more the strategic and practical person. Ummi more towards emotional....feely2 touchy stuff...
Both never been to parenting class...and never been a parent before..duhhh...so we have to learn while hitting the ground running...alot of mistakes...alot of lesson learnt..we even take notes of those..just in case we forgot and make the same mistakes again...i shud do the lesson learnt entry in the future...

So LDR..if you're reading this...from the bottom of my heart..i'm sorry if we messed up ur life...we're noobs....it was trial and error...too many advises with conflicting view points. I do hope u wont murder us in our sleep for traumatising your childhood...(p/s: L...we're sorry you've fallen from our bed the other day...u actually did quite well by landing on the pillow..we're cool abt this right?....no hard feelings...)

Coming back to baby whispering thing...last friday ummi got stuck in a meeting until 8pm i.e way past time their bedtime. We usually put them to bed around 6.30 to 7pm. So i planned strategically to put R to bed first coz he's the easiest if we bribed him with a bottle of milk. So in 5 min...R went down counting fluffy sheeps. So then i decided to take up L since D just woke up an hour ago and pretty much wide awake..L is quite a difficult sleeper...so it took me till 7.30pm to get L sleeps quietly. She usually talk to herself while flipping left and right..she does get loud and will always woke up R. This is where my multitasking training in corporate world comes in handy...i'd go back and forth betw R and L giving milk...stop halfway..go to the other one..like main galah panjang...

So about Maghrib..i went down and took up D who have been sitting quietly in the rocker..Tok umi said she's already sleepy..so this will be easy..piece of cake...Not!!
D is the unexpected one..it's really difficult to gauge her mood..maybe becoz she's the youngest...she'll start talking on her own and pulling the pillow over her head..smothering herself...sometimes with 2 pillow. That's the odd habit she just took up recently. We cannot leave her alone with a pillow. So after 45 mins of pillow tug of war with me..she finally falls asleep..

So there...i successfully put all 3 in bed alone..with no help from ummi. Coz usually this is a 2 man operation....I got skillz!!! Maybe I should advertise my skillset for hire. You never know....

1 comment:

  1. �������� congratulation you are the skilled one...

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