Teeth, Teeth and More Teeth!

My son is an impatient boy. He seems to be like his father and rush into things head first...and he's suffering because of it. You all know he's teething...no surprise there since I've mentioned it countless times. But imagine my surprise when I discovered on Monday evening, when cleaning his teeth, that there was a lower canine tooth that had pushed through right next to his first molar!

Ay Carumba! No wonder the poor little guy has screaming fests at night...I'd be screaming, too. I think he has a right to scream. Ususally a bottle and a couple of teething tablets do the trick, but we did try last night (without success since we'd already pulled out the sippy cup) to give him a teething biscuit. Those little buggers seem like they would be quite effective if not terribly tasty, but they don't smell too bad either (we got the Heathy Times wheat free ones). I guess we'll wait and see just how fast all those chompers are going to come in!

And now we're going to discuss another of Nicholas' quirks...pre-waking. Man, this kid is a *thrasher*! In the half hour before he wakes up he just moves about - kicking, tossing, turning...he does it all. When I am very tired, it is WAY annoying... It's times like these that I think "What have we done" with respect to letting him sleep with us at night.

I never imagined I'd be a "kid in our bed" kind of girl...I like my space (which we solved to some extent by upgrading to a king size bed). But, when you have a kid that really won't sleep for more than 1/2 to 2 hours at a time in his own bed, you finally give in. And so we did...and most of the time it's lovely.

Nicholas is a warm cuddly little snuggle buddy and especially in winter time it is nice to have that little warm body snuggled up to you. In the summer it's a little less so, but primarily it is lovely...except in those waking hours when I'm being beaten to a pulp by the cutie. So, as soon as he's able to be conversed with that little guy is going to his own room....or at least on a pallet on the floor in ours like I did when I had nightmares as a kid.

Last update is on the whole walking thing. He's getting it. If I could only say that I had beena ble to get it on the video camera. Sooner or later I'll catch him in the act, but it seems to be later...