Ivory Cuties

Paxton cut his first two teeth on Saturday. I was equal parts giddy and depressed. Again, it's all going far too quickly. I feel like we were just in the hospital having him. Chris is already eager for us to have a second child. We'll leave that in God's hands for now. In the meantime, we'll just watch our baby grow up before our eyes. His two cute little chicklet teeth just make me grin. They're the front bottom teeth. Already an ample drooler, he has now become an ocean unto himself. The funny thing is that when we were in Pennsylvania, Nana kept saying that he was going to cut his first tooth very soon based on how much he was drooling and chewing his hands. I told her that he's been a fond fan of those hands since he was in utero, and we have the pictures to prove it. The drooling has been a constant presence since he was about three months old. None of these signs triggered to me that he was going to cut a tooth anytime soon. We made a friendly bet between Nana, Chris and me. Nana guessed that the first tooth would appear in two weeks, Chris guessed three and I guessed four. Almost two weeks to the day of making that bet, the little white teeth broke through. Nana knows best.

He hasn't really altered his behavior much with teething. He has been sleeping through the night since we got back from PA, and now sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night and can't go back to sleep. But otherwise, he's sleeping great, including taking long naps. I gave him some homeopathic teething tablets yesterday, but I don't think they were really necessary. I hear that the front teeth usually aren't too painful, but the molars can be really agitating. I know that sometimes my gums are swollen and I can feel my wisdom teeth poking into my mouth and it is incredibly painful. I have sympathy for the little guy.

He had apples for the first time yesterday. He loved them. So many of the first foods they offer babies are so sweet. I'm still only giving him organic food, so my options are slightly more limited as to what they offer pre-packaged in the store. Next week I will start him on green beans, and that will likely be the least sweet of all his meals, aside from the much-hated rice cereal.

Speaking of the gorgeous baby, he is upstairs screaming, awake from his nap, so I better tend to his needs. Ta-ta.