Nah - you're not an idiot. You may also find that there isn't any in between cry. We get "I'm bored with playing come and get me" and then "I'm warning you that I mean this" and then "really cracking it" (which comes with tears). And going from the first to the last may only take a minute!

But - you said in an earlier post that "she started to ramp up again" - so even if you aren't aware of it specifically there was a second level of cry, and you responded to it

And if you have an almost-always happy bub then that's a very good thing.