Too Much!
I really have to get to bed, I have a terrible sore throat and suspect so does Limelet. Also he's teething like crazy again, so we've both/all had way less sleep than usual, and I have a dissertation meeting tomorrow morning. I may have to cancel if this throat doesn't get better ASAP. But so much has been happening...
We had two and a half lovely, blissful weeks of non-teething! It was amazing. That was right about when he turned 8 months old. That means he was teething almost non-stop from 4 months to 8 months. I guess being in pain hampers intellectual development! (I know it does mine.)
It was a Tuesday that he stopped teething, and all Wednesday he was (mostly) quiet and happy. As opposed to making that grounging noise and seeming vaguely dissatisfied when not being overtly entertained. The difference was like night and day, or any other pair of dissimilar concepts you like.
By that Thursday he started babbling "dada" and other cute syllables in a very conversational manner. Within a couple more days he'd developed his pincer grip, which was very cute except that he immediately started trying to use it on the nursies. (He also tried to pinch some ants, but so far he hasn't been able to catch any.) He started working on his unassisted sitting, and just...all kinds of developmental stuff all of a sudden.
He even started taking a few longer naps! On the other hand, he also started staying awake later at night.
Then, last week, the teething began again. One tooth's come through already, and I'm expecting the other one in the pair any day now. (I dreamed that I looked in his mouth and it was through, but it was only a dream.)
A couple days ago I started giving him food to touch (like watermelon, or broccoli). At first he mainly just wanted to squish it really, really hard in his little fists. He also did this weird thing where he would remove all the food from its container, then carefully hide it behind him, then he'd lean over and try to get it from where he'd hidden it. There wasn't a lot of eating going on there.
Then I got him some of those little fruit puffs for babies (they melt in their mouths kinda like cheesy poofs, so they're less chokey than other kinds of finger foods). They're not all-natural and they're definitely not mono-ingredient, but it's not like they're his primary food--they're training food. And it worked! He immediately pinched them and put them in his mouth. I started dropping a couple in his food so he'd get the idea.
It's only been two days and he's feeding himself now. He has to work at it a bit, but he manages. Of course, now he wants to grab all his food, even the squished-up kind that I'm trying to feed him with a spoon. Unfortunately, not much of the squished kind reaches his mouth successfully. However, he fed himself a number of little pieces of steamed broccoli tonight, which was as entertaining for us as watching a movie.
But, as I mentioned previously, must get to bed now. I'm not feeling too great. Maybe it'll be gone by morning. I hope poor Limelet doesn't feel too bad. (This is only the second time he's ever even had a runny nose.)
We had two and a half lovely, blissful weeks of non-teething! It was amazing. That was right about when he turned 8 months old. That means he was teething almost non-stop from 4 months to 8 months. I guess being in pain hampers intellectual development! (I know it does mine.)
It was a Tuesday that he stopped teething, and all Wednesday he was (mostly) quiet and happy. As opposed to making that grounging noise and seeming vaguely dissatisfied when not being overtly entertained. The difference was like night and day, or any other pair of dissimilar concepts you like.
By that Thursday he started babbling "dada" and other cute syllables in a very conversational manner. Within a couple more days he'd developed his pincer grip, which was very cute except that he immediately started trying to use it on the nursies. (He also tried to pinch some ants, but so far he hasn't been able to catch any.) He started working on his unassisted sitting, and just...all kinds of developmental stuff all of a sudden.
He even started taking a few longer naps! On the other hand, he also started staying awake later at night.
Then, last week, the teething began again. One tooth's come through already, and I'm expecting the other one in the pair any day now. (I dreamed that I looked in his mouth and it was through, but it was only a dream.)
A couple days ago I started giving him food to touch (like watermelon, or broccoli). At first he mainly just wanted to squish it really, really hard in his little fists. He also did this weird thing where he would remove all the food from its container, then carefully hide it behind him, then he'd lean over and try to get it from where he'd hidden it. There wasn't a lot of eating going on there.
Then I got him some of those little fruit puffs for babies (they melt in their mouths kinda like cheesy poofs, so they're less chokey than other kinds of finger foods). They're not all-natural and they're definitely not mono-ingredient, but it's not like they're his primary food--they're training food. And it worked! He immediately pinched them and put them in his mouth. I started dropping a couple in his food so he'd get the idea.
It's only been two days and he's feeding himself now. He has to work at it a bit, but he manages. Of course, now he wants to grab all his food, even the squished-up kind that I'm trying to feed him with a spoon. Unfortunately, not much of the squished kind reaches his mouth successfully. However, he fed himself a number of little pieces of steamed broccoli tonight, which was as entertaining for us as watching a movie.
But, as I mentioned previously, must get to bed now. I'm not feeling too great. Maybe it'll be gone by morning. I hope poor Limelet doesn't feel too bad. (This is only the second time he's ever even had a runny nose.)
posted by liz at 7:40 PM
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