Sofitel City Centre Singapore Staycation

Hello readers! So after my previous staycation at Conrad without bringing Kai, we decided to bring him to his first ever staycation which is at Sofitel City Centre Singapore!

There was still some restrictions going on but we decide to proceed with it. Do take note there is no complimentary parking for this hotel. The hotel is relatively new and we get to experience what stay home notice is like because we can't dine with more than 2 pax so the package that i book comes with dinner and breakfast so the staff will send to our room instead.

As i booked the family package so there was a little tent being set up for kids to play.

The next moment he looks like he is going to bite me. Hahaha

This was the view from our room.

Unlike pre-covid staycation, we need to book the swimming pool slots if we want to use the pool, so we changed kai to his swimsuit, let him play awhile before heading down to the pool!

We go for the shallow water level first in case he is afraid, but he was pretty chill about it.

And the swimming pool view opposite will be the hotel oasis downtown that we stayed previously. Haha

His expression is so cute! Haha

At the shallow water level , we try to let him explore playing with the water while keeping a lookout for him.

Family photo!

I think bringing him to the pool do use up some of his energy, after swimming, we clean him up and he continue to play with his toys that i brought along before he went to sleep as it was nearing his naptime.

Cuteness overload of the photos that i took of him before he went to nap. haha

I love this shot the most hahaha

He ended up sleeping till evening time and since food was send in, so we didn't have to rack our brain on where to go for our dinner. This was our dinner, he didn't wake up until we were almost done with our dinner. Haha

Our breakfast that was delivered to us the next morning.

Overall, it was not too bad, kai is pretty cooperative and didn't fuss through the night. He sleep pretty well too.

Looking to bring him to more staycation next time.

Shall end this post now.

Till then!

Praying of Chuangmu 床母

Hello readers! This is a post for my own record, with Kai now around 10 month, I feel he is relatively a manageable baby to take care since newborn, of cos during the first month he would wake up every 3 hour for milk, he doesn't need to be carried all the time, and sometimes when i get so tired, i would get him to self feed himself. Haha for eg, putting a cushion so he can drink from the bottle that is cushion. We also had his bad days too but so far i think it is still quite manageable.

Following my mum's advice, i am not sure if it also because we have been diligently praying to chuang mu 床母 so he was not too difficult to handle. So basically according to tradition, every bed will have a guardian that would take care of baby/kids. So when Kai turns 1 month, we started praying once every month on the same lunar date.

He doesn't really wake up every 3 month by the 2nd month, he would still wake up probably once every night but as long as we give him milk, he will drink and sleep back. 

So keeping as a record the item we used to pray for chuangmu, it is pretty easy. We need to prepare 12 pieces of incense paper and folded. This is like the so called 'salary' for the guardians. Haha

We will fold the 12 incense paper into the paper bag, remove all the pillow, blanket, and place the red tray that would contain like a bowl of rice and a hard boil egg, water, cutlery and one of our wedding light as shown in the setting below.

This bottle will be use to hold the joss stick when we pray to the chuangmu, for eg giving thanks for blessing our child, and praying they will continue to keep him well and safe and be able to sleep through the night etc. 

After we pray since kk was a newborn we will put him on the bed for awhile but not too long, probably 5 seconds. After that, we will burn the incense paper in the room and we can clear the item once the joss stick finish.

I think it is pretty subjective if you google there are many different way to praying the chuangmu but i think we choose a relatively simple and easy way since we have to pray till probably the kids goes to primary school.

This pretty much wraps up the sequence of praying the chuangmu, i shall end this post for now.

Till then,