My Clumsy Morning

I woke up late this morning cos I went to bed late last night. Furthermore, my little prince woke me up in the middle of the night because I attempted to make him sleep on his side rather than in his favourite sleeping posture -- prone. When I failed to console him and put him back to sleep, I decided to give him some milk. It's 2.45am. There I realized when I was in the kitchen, I've run out of hot water. After boiling water and finally prepared his milk, we went back to our bedroom. Thank God, after finishing his milk, he went back to sleep.

Few more hours later, the morning sun has risen and there my little prince woke up earlier than me and started making some noise. BUT I refused to wake up cos I was simply just too tired. Not for long, I finally dragged myself out of the bed and marched into my kitchen, I started preparing my prince's milk and cereal while washing up the leftover dish. When everything is ready, it's already 9am. Well, that's kinda late cos he normally takes his "breakfast" around 8am+ and I need to leave for work by 10am. Although the milk is abit hot, I still try my luck to feed him cos it's really getting late. As expected, it's too hot for him. Then I proceed on with the cereal first. He was rather co-operative, he finished them all. The milk was then at the right temperature. When I tried feeding him the milk, he started crying and yelling. I then spent half an hour to console him. Yes, it's HALF an Hour, before I can finally feed him milk successfully. In the end, I gathered that the very reason he threw such a big tantrum when seeing the bottle, was simply because the milk from the very same bottle was too hot and would have hurt him somehow. I spent great deal of time to reassure him the milk is no longer hot and mummy has done something to make it cool and etc.

From today's experience, I was quite amazed to find myself being so patient with him. I guess in the past, I would have shouted at the top of my lungs when dealing with "difficult" child. Isn't it amazing to know how much motherhood can change one's personality?