Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Breakthrough

About two and a half weeks ago, Mike was letting Eliza suck and chew on his finger, as usual, when he was suddenly pricked by a tiny razor blade emerging from her gums! She has been drooling profusely and chewing on everything for about a month now, so we suspected she was teething, but were surprised to find the first little chomper so soon (I've read that it takes 2-3 months of the teething symptoms before any teeth appear). Less than a week later, bottom tooth #2 made its breakthrough! Though the teeth aren't all the way in, this little girl is now armed and dangerous!

I had a hard time getting a picture by myself. Eliza saw that I was having trouble holding her mouth open with one hand and holding the camera with the other, so she kept offering her assistance, so most of the shots included close-ups of little fingers. Until I get a better picture you can use your imagination with this one:


In other surprising breakthroughs, Eliza is becoming quite the accessorizer. I don't know where she learned it. When I went to get her out of her car seat, I found that she had not only pulled a ring off the chain of rings dangling from her car seat handle, but had managed to get it around her wrist. She kept it on for several hours!

Again, not a stellar picture, but you get the idea:



4 comments:

Anonymous said...

A tooth already? Wow! Where does the time fly?

Miss you!

But you’ll never guess who is coming back to work on August 11.

I’ll give you a hint. It’s obviously not you, but I’m still so excited!

Anonymous said...

Congrats on the new tooth! What a cute little girl. . .love the look on her face as if she is surprised that you are suprised about the bracelet!

Anonymous said...

She is awesome– what is this comment on Darbie’s blog about you only being 6.5 hours away? Are you moving back east for grad school or something? Do tell!

Anonymous said...

Our kids always got teeth right as we went on a trip. Emily’s first broke through on a flight to Bali. I found Hannah’s on a flight to Japan. . . guess that means Madeline should be getting one here in about two weeks! Hopefully her next few weeks won’t be too bad for you guys!

So funny with the bracelet. We found Maddie with a rattle around her arm yesterday in her car seat.