My child has been content WHILE NOT BEING ON ME AT THE SAME TIME for a record ten minutes now.  I needed to step away and do something grown up for just a minute.

.. shit, he’s fussing again.  I’ll hurry.

I wanted to share this little .. man, he’s already crying.  Damn it.

This place.

Like her stuff.  She is local.

This was my birthday present from Aardvark. (LURVE.)

I bought this for Aardvark for her birthday. (Also LURVE.)

Spawned a conversation with Zoot where she admitted that she had previously owned this necklace, LURVED it, and then lost it. (I think she would love this one as well, being the map freak she is.)

Baby is now alternating between laughing and crying, depending what dog is walking up to him.  So I’ll take this last minute to tell you that the lady behind Moppet’s Closet is VERY sweet, and very accommodating.  I LURVE my necklace and wear it almost every day (I move between that and my Coven necklace).

So take a browse through Moppet’s Closet and tell her the Coven sent you.

I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to see shit like this on the back of Baby Orajel or on WebMD regarding teething:

Fever, congestion, or grumpiness are not symptoms of teething.

Um, cause YES OH HELL THEY ARE.

Now, admittedly, I was even more convinced that my child was of another realm recently.  Binja was spending the night at my mom’s one night during our tech week (because she is a GODDESS who routinely saves us from the world of sleeplessness) and she sent me a text message that said, “YOU DIDN’T TELL ME HE HAD A TOOTH!”

And I, being mother of the year (MotY), responded, “HOLY CRAP, HE DOES?”

Yes, my child sprouted .. not one, oh no, but.. TWO teeth.  And we didn’t notice a difference in his manner at all.  Because, for the most part, my child is really otherworldly in his disposition.

Sure, he’d been drooling a lot, but honestly, he’s been doing that since he was six weeks old.  In fact, I’ve blamed all of his growth spurts on teething, his sleeping issues (he’s had very little, admittedly), and most of his runny diapers.  All teething.  But it wasn’t till about mid-September that we actually had teeth to prove it.

Now, I assumed that the worst was over.  That we had those first two and everything else is now downhill.  Because, you know, I am MotY, and I deserve that kind of luck.

OH, SO WRONG, SARAH.

Two days ago, my child became posessed by the debil.  This is OBVIOUSLY teething.  Drooling like a fountain, gnawing on ANYTHING (except food.. he does not want to eat kthanxbai), and constant, horrible outburtst of crying, screaming, wiggling, hysteria.

Great weekend, huh?

He’s had fevers off and on, TONS of congestion (all clear, though), and “grumpy” deserves to be in quotes because THIS IS NOT MY CHILD, THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A MISPLACED WOLF CUB.  And I just want it documented for mothers who have not yet begun this joy (Cass and Pocklock, I’m looking YOUR way) that YES, fevers and congestion and mood swings are most certainly indicative of teething.

So when your babies started teething, what was the oddity they encountered?  I should’ve started the “To Each His Own” series when Binja was much younger, as a sort of MommyBlogger (ech, just threw up in my mouth a little bit.. but we are that, right?) wikipedia of children’s milestones.  

Tell me about your teething experiences.  What was horrible, what was easy, and what do you want to share with other moms (and dads) who are going through the same thing?

Oh, and my dad’s advice? “Have you tried whiskey yet?”

I am SO his child.