so, yeah, today, we are hanging out. karl, me, nate... nothing special... just sitting around, when karl says (with his finger being gnawed on in nate's mouth), "I feel a tooth."
at first, i didn't believe him. i was all "wait. what? no. let me feel." and i stuck my little pinky finger in and ran it along his little gums and, sure enough, there was a little razor peeking through those bottom gums.
what the hell?
for some reason, this one barely-there tooth made me VERY emotional. (and, seriously, it is barely busted through the surface. you have to squint REAL close to even see it.)
one, karl found it. and i love karl and karl loves nate and we are one little loving family and what not, but i spend all day every day (yes, that is most definately an exageration) reading about babies and development and milestones and diapers and baby food and what they should eat and when they should eat it and googling things like "the cough kind of sounds barky but there is no rattling in his chest." (you MIGHT argue i research a little TOO much, but i am just trying to keep that little baby healthy and happy. oh, yea, and alive.) so, i felt semi-robbed when karl discovered this particular milestone. isn't the obsessive parent supposed to notice these HUGE milestones FIRST? hmph. jealous.
two, and i may be completely niave here, but aren't babies supposed to freak out when thier teeth are coming in? not a peep out of nate in the past few days. maybe a little extra drool... but daycare this week said he has been 'exceptionally happy' (which is decidely better than 'he is not as fussy as he normally is' or 'he has been sad today'.) not the first, and CERTAINLY not the last time, nate has surprised me.. tee hee.. that's not the way babies are "supposed to" get their first tooth, right? what is up with this kid? i am sure i will have future teething woes to share and that i should be happy he barely seemed to notice this first little guy (and i am happy; just surprised.)
three, A TOOTH? i swear just yesterday he couldn't even hold his little wobble-head up on his own. for some irrational reason, that TOOTH signifies the first time i thought, "this kid is growing up fast." people always say, 'he is getting so big' and 'they change so fast' or something along those lines and i always smile and nod and semi-agree. but a TOOTH? that wasn't there this morning and then just APPEARED? uh, yea. that feels like kind of a big deal.
i am so clueless. and i love it and hate it all at the same time.
ok, off to google things like "painless teething" and "razor sharp baby teeth" (kidding.) (ish.)
6 months, 4 weeks, 1 day