This is James’ latest nickname for Sophie… A protestant.

Our little clown has become so loud recently. She’s the loudest at the swim class, loudest at the mothers and babies group, loudest in the library today.

I had my first public lone encounter with my little protestant today at the library. She’s not quite a toddler yet but boy can she be demanding! But it’s really my mistake lah coz I introduced her to something that I shouldn’t have. I put her down on the floor to look at books and let her pull books out of the shelves. Which is fine. But she wouldn’t stop after a while. She just kept doing it and i just kept putting the books back. After I choose her books, I took her up from the floor to go elsewhere to look for my magazines and she PROTESTED!

She started making noise at first and normally by then I would have been able to pacify her or distract her but today, she started to get louder and louder and started arching her back! Oh my…. she was crying so loudly, I had to leave the books and take her out of the library.

I took her out ready to go home if she didn’t settle. I started talking to her and eventually she quietened down and we went back in to quickly get the books. She seemed alright so I proceeded to have a little meal at the Cafe Galilee, a nice little cafe in the library. I gave her my juice bottle to play and we sat down for about 15 mins to eat and wait for the rain to stop before taking a bus home. She was happily smiling at everyone. Back to her normal self.

It’s not the Sophie doesn’t cry. She does but normally it’s quite easy to quieten her down but today was quite an experience.

But I find that Sophie is getting more assertive and expressive. She’ll let it all show to the max – happy, sad, angry, frustrated, tired etc. For example in the pool, she’ll squeal with excitement, if she’s tired at mum’s group, she’ll arch her back and cry if we don’t leave soon enough, if she’s got enough of sitting in her pram when we go for walks, she’ll also cry, when she’s excited about something she sees, she’ll babble loudly, if i’m slow in getting her meals ready, she’ll also be whining. Aiyo now that she can point I can’t pretend I don’t know what she wants anymore! I noticed that in comparison with her peers at swim class/mums grp, she’s a lot louder and demanding. The rest of the babies are quite chill. But it’s ok lah… when she’s happy and expressive, it’s really cute so I guess it makes up for the times that she’s upset and wailing. But today was a reminder that it’s time to be a bit more thickskinned so I can deal with her tantrums in public esp as she becomes a toddler, trying to test her boundaries.

She’s quite a sensitive little one and she’s been like that since she was born so I guess a good routine has helped her to go through the day without too much problems. Everything needs to be quite on time e.g. meals, sleep etc or else she’ll react. She’s now sleeping 12 hrs through the nite very well and taking two naps that amount to 2 1/2 hrs in total. I think she needs a lot of sleep to make up for the energy she uses in expressing herself and for maxing up her senses. hee… Mommy here too. I actually slept for an hour after coming home from the library. Sophie slept for 1 1/2 hrs.

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