Xander Week 34 - Surprise, I’ve got teeth!
May 8, 2007
Last weekend Xander visited with my parents and sister at their house. Zach and I had made lots of plans for a kid-free weekend, and when offered the opportunity, we jumped on it. In a previous post I had mentioned that Xander is starting to grow teeth on the top of his mouth - which is slightly backwards from most kids, who grow their bottom teeth first. We weren’t overly concerned with this, and though you could definitely feel the start of something coming through his gums, the progress has been slow.
When I picked Xander up from my parents on Sunday, I was shocked to discover two little teeth poking through his bottom gum! They still have some growing to do, but they are much farther along than the upper teeth, and we hadn’t even noticed them! Now when Xander puts my finger in his mouth to ease his gum discomfort, it’s actually a little painful. I suppose now we’re going to have to work on the “no, we don’t bite people” routine. At any rate, it’s just another exciting development in the always adventurous baby-land.
Our sleepy, happy baby has started to change a bit in the past week or so - he has started crying and fussing more often, and sometimes goes from completely happy to completely freaking out in mere seconds. We haven’t entirely figured out the cause of this change, though we suspect that he may have started teething.