Taylor sometimes goes through these little quirky stages. She’ll try out a particular sound or expression for a day or two and then as quickly as it started, it will stop. Last week, she decided it would be fun to stick her tongue out. She got great reactions from people because they thought she was doing it just for them, but it pretty much stayed out all day long. At the grocery store, the checker asked me why Taylor her tongue was sticking out and I replied that it was a stage she was going through. She suggested that I try pushing it back in so that it didn’t stay that way. The checker was far more concerned about it than I was and, just as I suspected, T.J. stopped doing it the next day. Personally, I found it rather amusing and was kind of sad to see it go…
Taylor’s teething again…or is it still? I’ve lost track now. It seems like we are embroiled in one long neverending teething session. This week, she’s been working on tooth #7. Considering that her first tooth came in when she was 22 weeks old, that’s an average of one new tooth every 14 days. Each tooth is equal to approximately 2.5 days of crankiness for T.J., and babies generally get a total of 20 baby teeth, which means that we’ve got about 32.5 days of hard-core sleepless misery for all of us to look forward to. On the plus side, however, if she keeps going at this rate she’ll be done in roughly 182 days – by the end of July (not that anyone’s counting!)
When Taylor got up from her nap yesterday, she had wood pieces all over her face and the crib looked like this:
Apparently, she’s started teething on the rails of her crib. This can’t be good. We’ve lowered the mattress as low as it will go, but she’s going to get big enough to do it again. We’re stumped as to how we can prevent this behavior. What’s a parent to do?!?