Tooth Krakatoa
Jacob has been a fussy pill the past week. He is not a happy camper unless he's being held, by me, at least 75% of the time. I had to sleep with a heating pad Saturday night because I made the mistake of trying to carry him in one hand and two garbage bags full-o-trash in the other.
Dude weighs 23 lbs now according to the bathroom scale. I know my mom is going to comment, and my grandma -- who reads but never comments -- is going to email me, and both will give me a soft, soothing butt-whooping about how I need to take it easy and not carry that fat boy around so much. I'm such a little thing! I'll hurt myself! Blah blah. It's funny, really, how much I can tote his lard butt around during the day and not even feel it. He's like my personal trainer, growing ever so gradually so my biceps don't even remember that he used to be 9 lbs. You should see my arms, man, they are riiiiipped. No more bye-bye arm for Mama, no sir.
But anyway, Jacob is fussy. Why? Well, it couldn't be another tooth, could it? Actually, yes. It can. FOUR OF THEM.
Horsing around with him this morning, I happened to get a good glimpse of this upper gums. Remember how he just popped out two top incisors, like, last week? Apparently today or yesterday his top right lateral incisor poked through. Its left compatriot is bulging out of the gum-skin, ready to burst right in at any second. Even worse, he has smaller, but still protruding, bulges where his top canine teeth should be. Poor feller! Isaac was pretty steady with the dentition eruption, clocking in at one per month starting at 7 months. Jacob looks like he will have gotten his top middle four teeth over the course of 2 weeks, putting the total tooth count at 6. And he's not even nine months yet.
I have a theory -- that his precocious dental progress is solely to help him in his quest to become the next great sumo wrestler. He is done done done with the smooshy food, so why not start sprouting all these chompers to help him move on to bigger, better, meatier things?
Dude weighs 23 lbs now according to the bathroom scale. I know my mom is going to comment, and my grandma -- who reads but never comments -- is going to email me, and both will give me a soft, soothing butt-whooping about how I need to take it easy and not carry that fat boy around so much. I'm such a little thing! I'll hurt myself! Blah blah. It's funny, really, how much I can tote his lard butt around during the day and not even feel it. He's like my personal trainer, growing ever so gradually so my biceps don't even remember that he used to be 9 lbs. You should see my arms, man, they are riiiiipped. No more bye-bye arm for Mama, no sir.
But anyway, Jacob is fussy. Why? Well, it couldn't be another tooth, could it? Actually, yes. It can. FOUR OF THEM.
Horsing around with him this morning, I happened to get a good glimpse of this upper gums. Remember how he just popped out two top incisors, like, last week? Apparently today or yesterday his top right lateral incisor poked through. Its left compatriot is bulging out of the gum-skin, ready to burst right in at any second. Even worse, he has smaller, but still protruding, bulges where his top canine teeth should be. Poor feller! Isaac was pretty steady with the dentition eruption, clocking in at one per month starting at 7 months. Jacob looks like he will have gotten his top middle four teeth over the course of 2 weeks, putting the total tooth count at 6. And he's not even nine months yet.
I have a theory -- that his precocious dental progress is solely to help him in his quest to become the next great sumo wrestler. He is done done done with the smooshy food, so why not start sprouting all these chompers to help him move on to bigger, better, meatier things?
posted by Claire at 9:24 PM
5 Comments:
wow! i can't believe how many teeth he has!! micah didn't start getting teeth till he was 10 months. and i think noah who is 5 months is going to be early like your isaac as he just drowls and chomps on everything!!
oops! i meant early like your jacob!! and that picture of him is too cute!!
Gracie has all her teeth coming in now!!
Do you have any food suggestions for a baby that wants nothing to do with baby food? She refuses baby food.
Oh Amanda, we are in the same boat. I posted about this awhile ago -- here's the link -- and I got several comments that might be helpful.
For the most part I give him some of whatever I'm eating -- strips of bread or cheese or meat from sandwiches, ground beef, beans and tomatoes from chili. Right now he especially likes to eat noodles or pasta of any kind. Last night I made tuna noodle casserole and he ate that, peas and all. He loves diced tomatoes. Breakfast is usually an Eggo with butter or cream cheese, cut into small wedges, plus either a banana, cut lengthways into strips (which he can pick up easier than circles or chunks) or baby yogurt. He eats whatever big brother is having for lunch, usually a quesadilla or grilled cheese or English muffin pizzas or toasted bagels, and a piece of fruit, like sliced apple or pear or halved grapes or strawberries.
I can actually get Jacob to eat some baby food if I give him the jar and let him do the work. It's soooooooooo messy, but he will eat quite a bit of veggies that way.
Thanks Claire!!! You rock!!
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