Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Mother's Day
4-MAR-2008:
Last Sunday (2nd of March) was Mother's Day - in the UK, at least. When daddy called his mum on the phone, he found out that it wasn't Mother's Day in Malaysia.
Anyway, this Mother's Day, I didn't get any gifts or special treatment. In fact, I had to prepare three meals a day on Sunday, but it was the best Mother's Day I've ever had. Why? Here's why.
Firstly, Dominic's behaviour was excellento! He was soooo good over the weekend, as if he knew that he was supposed to treat mummy good. :-) In the morning, he woke up, had his milk, did his poo, brushed his teeth and got changed as usual. Then, he finished his breakfast, whereas normally he would half play half eat his breakfast.
And then we set off to visit daddy's colleague in St. Neots, which was like 30 minutes by Tube to King's Cross and then 1 hour by train to St. Neots (not including the time spent waiting for the train). Dominic didn't so much as utter an "eehh" all throughout the journey. He had ham and cheese baguette on the train. While usually, he would eat just the ham and cheese, today he ate the baguette as well - exactly like how a sandwich should be eaten, i.e. no taking apart the ingredients.
When we got to Dennis' (daddy's colleague) place ... boy, for the first time he didn't cling tightly to daddy or mummy. It was a surprise that Dennis' son Noah, who is the same age as Dominic was more timid than Dominic was at first.
And so Dominic spent the day playing with Noah's toys (cried a bit when Noah tried to reclaim his toys). He was simply wonderful during lunch - such a good boy. He was so good throughout the day, both Saturday and Sunday. He went to sleep when he was tired, played on his own when he was awake and ate his food without fuss. I wished that every day is Mother's Day so that Dominic can be this good everyday. But alas ... when Monday came, he was back to normal - not too bad but whiny and clingy.
Finally, I'm happy that Dominic made me this wonderful Mother's Day card. :-)
There was a tiny drawing stuffed in the pocket of the card. Behind the drawing, it says this.
And in front, the picture is just a scribble, but at least I know it was really drawn by Dominic.
And inside, it says this.
And behind the card, it says this.
