This morning…make that last night…Joey got up at 11:00, 1:00 and 4:30. Let me tell you, I yearn for those days when he only got up once and my bed was soaked with breastmilk.
Anyway…at 4:30, he was wide awake. As in, happy and talking. I changed him. Nursed him. Put him back to bed. No cigar. I didn’t want Ben to wake up at that hour – my day would really be off to a bad start! So I brought Joey in to bed with us. He laid their and talked and I let him hold my finger and then, as usual, he tried to gum it.
And then I felt something sharp. Ach! A tooth! Joey has a toofer!
Oh my!
Again, totally new experience for me. Ben never put anything in his mouth, much less let anyone feel in there. So I never knew whether he had teeth until they were really obvious. Joey’s first tooth can be seen if you know exactly where to look and make the most of opportunities when they knock.
He was fussy last night – no throw up – and I even took his temperature to see if he was sick again. It was 99-something, which was only a low-grade fever if you want to go so far as to call it that. [No, I didn’t give him anything for it.]
The Expert, who knows more about my children than I do, told Steve this weekend that ‘doctor’s will tell you otherwise but every experienced mother knows that fever goes along with teething.’ So Steve thinks the whole ordel with Joey being sick this weekend was due to his teething.
I’ll go along with the idea that his “fever” last night was due to teething, but I think his being sick last weekend might be stretching it just a little. Just because the rest of us haven’t gotten it doesn’t mean he wasn’t sick – I can’t tell you how many times Steve has been sick (and even stayed home from work) but the rest of us never got whatever it was that he had. All I have to say is that we’ll see next time he has a tooth come in if he throws up an entire meal, has a fever of 102.2, and has diahrea for five days. Yeah, we’ll see…
For the record, he did go back to sleep shortly before six o’clock. But by then, I was wide awake. I’m thinking a cup of coffee might be in order, especially considering that this is the second cloudy day we’ve had in a row where I needed to turn on the lights upstairs in order to be able to see.