An Allie first - Teeth

As I mentioned in one of my previous blogs, this is going to be a year of many firsts for Allie and let me tell you, she's starting 2012 off with a bang! I have several of 'firsts' to post so bare with me.  For me, it's like Christmas morning every time she does something new, so I'm loving it!  But a lot of these posts are more for my records, so you won't hurt my feelings if you decide to skip them.  I mean Allie might take it personally, but she's just a baby, she probably won't even remember how sad you made her.


So Allie has been very uncharacteristically (big word, had to spell check that one) irritable this past week.  We just couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. She didn't want to play by herself, she just wanted to be held, she would cry EVERY time one of us left the room, even if she was being held by the other one, she would just cry for no reason, and has just been down right fussy & needy.  She was sick on New Year's Eve with a bad cold/allergies but that had cleared up, so that couldn't be it.  I'm pretty sure we can rule out PMS.  So what could be bothering her so badly?


Well Allie has been 'teething' since she was about 2 1/2 months old. And by teething, I just mean the common symptoms of hands in the mouth, more drool then even bounty can handle, and chewing on everything that comes near her mouth.  But the Dr. said it might still be awhile before teeth actually come through so I didn't really think anything about it.  I've been putting orajel on her gums every night before bed for weeks now, it keeps her from tossing and turning and waking herself up at night.  So Tuesday night,  when I was putting her in bed, I stuck my finger in her mouth (clean hands of course) to rub the orajel on her gums and there it was...the culprit of all the fussiness, and a sharp little sucker...a bottom tooth!!  I'm not sure why I got so excited, but I ran into the living room shouting "Allie has a tooth, I can't believe our baby has a tooth, she's too young to have a tooth, can you believe Allie has a tooth?"  For reasons beyond my comprehension, Jeff did not share in my excitement.  His response was "it's just a tooth, what's the big deal?" Total killjoy.


The next morning I couldn't wait to take a look in there to see what this 'toof' looked like (I don't know why I feel like calling it a 'toof' helps Allie to understand me better, but when I talk to her, I find myself using words that are probably just making us both dumber...I need to work on that or no one is gonna want to hang out with me).  But when I looked in her mouth, what to my wondering eyes did appear...but TWO tiny TEEF!!  Allie's two bottom teeth are coming through!! I hope someone out there shares in my excitement. And if you don't, at least humor me and act excited, I would really appreciate it. 


Here's my little fussy pants...

That pouty face of hers makes me wanna laugh and cry at the same time.  


And I have to include a happy face too...