Week 36 - Check out my pearly WHITES....I mean WHITE!

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Week 36 - Check out my pearly WHITES .....I mean WHITE!

( 4/20/08 - 4/25/08)

I just have one word....FINALLY...................IT'S ABOUT TIME - wait that's three. Either way the child who has been teething for five months FINALLY has a tooth. Granted it is only one, but thank GOD he finally got that little thing through those gums of his. I have to say that it was one crazy ride, his poor gums got so swollen and his ears must have really hurt because he pulled on his ears, scratched his cheeks until they bled, and had a horrible runny nose (to the point where it was hard for him to breathe while he ate) for the whole week.

The picture above isn't great, but the tooth itself is completely through the gums and is now just growing bigger and bigger every day. Jake doesn't quite know what to do with it, the first day it was through the gums he basically spent all day with his hand in his mouth playing with his new tooth. It was amazing how the runny nose was instantly gone, his mood instantly changed, his appetite returned, and the ear pulling stopped the second that dang blasted tooth came in.

How many more teeth do I have to go through this with???? Please tell me that the symptoms just happen with the first one and that all the rest will be easy??? Please.....I BEG YOU!!!!

Unfortunately I think this tiny reprieve we are in now isn't going to last very long as the other bottom tooth is coming in. It is already a tad bit swollen so I am assuming I only have a little bit before hell week part 2 shows up to pay us a visit!!

It was a beautiful week this week, Jake and I went on a few walks, blew more bubbles, and went to visit some of my friends from work this week. Most of them hadn't seen Jake in about 2 months and he has changed so much. For one he has gotten a lot more hair (with red highlights might I add...my mom will be happy about that) and is more social than he was the last time they saw him. Overall he is a good kid to take out, I bought him a travel highchair that I use when we are out. He loves being up at the table with everyone and spent the entire lunch time listening to us talk, laugh, and have fun. He is a good kid to take out and I count my blessings!

I just have one more thing to say this week :
TOOTH FAIRY HERE WE COME!!!!

Week 35 - The week of almost!!

Week 35 - The week of ALMOST!

(4/13/08 - 4/19/08)

Well it was inevitable, eventually there had to be a week where milestones and funny things ALMOST happened, but didn't. I have been racking my brain for the past two days trying to figure out what to write about this week. Do I write about him ALMOST getting a tooth? How about him ALMOST pushing himself up into a crawling position, or ALMOST figuring out how to walk around in his new walker....etc....etc...etc....

Unfortunately this was a week of just Mommy and Jacob hanging out with no real earth shatteringly funny moments or "YES FINALLY" milestones. I do have to say though that this dang blasted tooth of his must be growing at 1/1000 of a millimeter a day cause I SWEAR it broke through the gums on Monday and it is now Saturday and you still can't see a tooth even though if you feel his gums you can clearly feel the scratchiness of the top of a tooth! Oh well maybe next week I can finally write about how my little guy is one step closer to the Tooth Fairy!

We got him a walker to hopefully help him figure out he has legs! He is 8 months old today, and if you try and put him on his legs he will occasionally put a little weight on them, but overall he is content to be carried everywhere and has no interest in putting any sort of weight on them. We got him the Chicco DJ Walker, I researched for a few days and found that this one was taller than most with three height selections. Thankfully I got it cause he is already on the middle height and could technically probably be at the highest now.

Well, that is about all for this week, sorry for the boring post. Let's hope many many things happen next week and that the long awaited tooth FINALLY shows its pearly white face into the world!!!