BB @ Trial Holiday

We are planning to bring Yuan2 to Japan to celebrate her 1st birthday in April -- mummy/daddy can join a cool climate marathon and Yuan2 can enjoy sakura bloom at the same time. As Yuan2 sleeps in her cot since birth and never sleep anywhere else, we decided to have a trial holiday -- to test how she adapts to new environment. With recommendation from a colleague, Conrad is having Januray Sale -- we managed to book a business king room with breakfast for $180++ for the weekend of Jan 9-10.

Spending the weekend in the heart of Singapore sounded fun :) I came up with a packing list -- haha, TK said I was practically bring the whole house there -- except the baby cot :P Friends and colleagues advised to bring minimal -- so that we can see how well baby adapts. Ok ok, I shortened the list to the essential.

On Saturday, we fed Yuan2 her rice cereal and off we head for Conrad. Check in was smooth and we were settled in the comfy room. The room has a great view of the bay and the baby cot was nicely setup. It was small compared to Yuan2's cot @ home but she had fun cruisng ard the cot :) And she loved crawling on the king-size mattress and playing with the bolster -- but the bed frame was very high and dangerous if she fell off *gosh*

We had lunch @ Paulener -- TK was craving for pork knuckle (it was HUGE). Went well with Erdinger and buffalo wings & potato wedges *yummy* Yuan2 was too distracted to finish her milk @ the restaurant. So we head back to the hotel room -- she finished her milk and took a nap in the cot. TK & me enjoyed lazing on the bed and watching TV. We went for a walk to check out the pool -- decided not to let Yuan2 swim there as it was such a hassle to shower her.

A little mishap happened -- I was pulling the curtain to let Yuan2 have a better view and jumped when I stepped on something sharp. Gosh, it was a piece of broken glass that pierced through the room slippers! We quickly informed the hotel staff and they came up immediately. They applied antispetic wipe and checked that the small cut was ok. We found more pieces of broken glass behind the curtain -- they asked the housekeeping staff to do a thorough vaccum of the room. The on-duty manager apologised profusely.

We head over to Marina Square for shopping and then had dinner @ SCGH -- another yummy dinner *slurp* Yuan2 was very naughty -- refused to sit on the stroller or high chair. Maybe the aircon was too cold. In the end, we had to take turn to carry her while one of us eat :( To tire her out, we went for a stroll by marina bay -- Yuan2 was fascinated with the people n lights and stayed awake *surprisingly* We finally returned to the room at 9pm -- after wipe down and changed in to her sleepsuit, it was time to put her to bed. Think she "ren chuan" and refused to zz in the cot. I had to carry and use the beansprout pillow to cover her face -- then she slept in my arms. I put her back in the cot at 10pm. We hope she could sleep through the nite and turned in shortly.

We woked up with Yuan2 wailing at midnite -- she refused to open her eyes and kept crying. We turned on the lights and kept calling to her -- finally she opened her eyes and we managed to calm her down. However, she seemed uneasy with the new environment. We put her in between us on our bed but she woke up many times through the nite. At times, she felt warm like feverish. Blur mummy didn't include medicine in her list! Finally, she refused to go back to sleep at 5am. Haha, we were the first to arrive at the executive lounge for breakfast at 6am! As we have a baby, we were given a secluded room -- gosh, it was soooo COLD... After breakfast, we went for a morning walk to Merlion park. Yuan2 enjoyed being bjorned and watching the spraying water from Merlion :) Her temperatur was OK after exposure to the sun.

The next task was to bath her -- first time I bath her elsewhere. I filled up the bath tub with 1/3 full of water and placed a towel as anti-slip. I went in the tub with Yuan2 -- she sat on the towel and happily splashing n playing with the toys :) It was actually very fun! TK was on standby with towel to wrap Yuan2 after her bath. All was done smoothly and it seemed easy :)

Yuan2 took a long nap after her bath -- TK & me lazed in the room, eating fruits and reading newspaper. When she woke up, we went over to Millenia Walk for a quick lunch before checking out. Upon hearing that we were checking out, the on-duty manager quickly came to meet us -- she apologised again for the "mishap" in the room and gave us a bear & chocolate as a token.

It was a tiring weekend -- we came back panda eyes!! At least, we are prepared that such things will happen on our Japan trip -- Yuan2 cannot sleep well in a new environment. Or maybe we should try to let Yuan2 sleep between us instead of in the cot -- she will feel more secured. Now, the question is : are we ready to bring Yuan2 on her 1st oversea's trip -- 1 week+ of sleepless nite?!