Right Now
(My husband cleaning my car while wearing a baby. You should be impressed.)
Gabe: is huge. He weighs just under 19 lbs and he just turned seven months. Maggie didn’t weigh this much until she was sixteen months. He is outgrowing everything. Also, he doesn’t sit up on his own yet. I’m not worrying about it. I’m just enjoying the calm before the crawling.
Maggie: Two weeks ago Maggie fell at church and hit her mouth on a wastebasket. This forced one of her front teeth up and back. Her gum line was very bruised and nasty looking. Almost two weeks later the tooth turned gray. Since it is a baby tooth, there really isn’t much that can be done. We have a dentist appointment scheduled where we’ll find out if it is staying in or being pulled. She isn’t due to have this tooth fall out for about two and a half years, so I really hope it stays in.
Jonas: is reading his first chapter book out loud to me. His motivation is a new Bionicle when he finishes. This is a big deal for him, and I am amazed at his reading skills. Having a reader is so cool. He is doing so well this year. We don’t have homework battles like we did last year, and he is a happier kid in general. I love it. I love that he is happy and succeeding.
Chris: is fixing up his car and biding his time until he can do a few larger improvements. It is fun to see him engrossed in a project, learning and enjoying the process. He has fixed several minor problems and is finding many treasures at the Pick ‘n Pull, so it is all being done for very little money. Gotta love that. We are also reading the new Dan Brown book, The Lost Symbol, out loud to each other. We read The DaVinci Code out loud when it first came out about six years ago. I love having Chris read to me. Some days he sits in my scrap room while I make things and he reads. Listening to him is so much better than an ipod.
Me: I’m just trying to enjoy it all and adjust to new routines. Trying to keep it simple.
I had that happen when I was 3 and it was my front tooth,I hit it on the toilet paper holder… one of the old ceramic ones… they had to pull it and I actually remember them doing it, I broke mine also and had to have a root canal done…. I just remember them holding me down. The one next to the front tooth turned gray and I got to keep that one.
Comment by leslie.mccarroll — September 24, 2009 @ 9:04 pm
I love being read to by my husband as well. I don’t read much nonfiction, but when he reads it to me, I like it. In the first weeks after our daughter was born, he read to me when I nursed (since I still needed both hands at that point), and I would take over and read to him while he paced the room with her afterwards to get her to sleep. It’s such sweet memory.
Comment by Elizabeth — September 24, 2009 @ 9:53 pm
funny how when a guy does stuff ‘wearing a baby’ it’s impressive yet when WE do ALL the stuff with babies, etc. it’s just the mom’s duty.
a friend who has a 5 year old had a day to herself, her husband commented ‘i can’t even write an email’ welcome to my world daddy…
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Comment by Pam Hoffman — September 25, 2009 @ 3:19 pm
I am so jealous! Audrey is pushing six months and is already crawling. Mickey was much slower with the mobility and it was soooooo much easier!
Comment by Erica Hettwer — September 25, 2009 @ 4:42 pm
That happened to my daughter when she was 3.5 yrs old. She bumped her tooth on a slide, it went gray a few weeks later. The dentist said not to pull it as it might make the teeth offset when the adult ones came in, so we paid $700 to have a kiddie root canal (to keep it from getting infected) and covered (like they do in the makeover shows). Expensive, because we didn’t yet have her covered since she was only 3! 4 months later, she was horsing around with a grownup friend, chasing her around the house, slipped, fell, and knocked that fancy little tooth out on the kitchen floor. Now, I have to say, the tooth hurt less and caused less blood because it was basically fake, so the trauma was not as bad as it could be in that situation. But all that $$ down the tube! Anyway, to wrap up, she is now 6.5 yrs old, has lost 2 more next to that tooth naturally, and our hopes are that the two top middle come in together. Here’s hoping! She got a LOT of questions from people over the past 3 yrs - “Oh, I see you’ve already lost a tooth? Aren’t you kinda young for that?” To which, she tells them the whole long story….
Comment by KnitterPam — September 26, 2009 @ 4:55 am
Poor Maggie - same thing happened to my youngest. She didn’t have it pulled because it might have messed up the timing on the adult tooth above it. New tooth (now 3 years later) is fine. Another friend’s 3 year old fell and lost both top front teeth! She just had such a unique smile for one so young (and for so long) that the parents found they had to get used to her new toothy smile when her adult teeth finally came in a few years later.
Comment by Jill — September 26, 2009 @ 5:23 am
Okay, I totally love the idea of reading out loud to one another!! Too bad my husband is in Iraq…do you think I could shout loud enough to him??? hee hee And I don’t think we want to waste our phone calls on reading Dan Brown…but I might have to force myself to save the book for when he returns next year.
My son didn’t sit up until well past the 7-month mark. He has a very large head, which has thrown off gross motor development slightly. In fact, he’s almost a year, and isn’t crawling yet. While some people might be concerned, I’m not. It helps that my son’s pediatrician and neurologist are BOTH not concerned…and I just realize, like you said, its the calm before the storm. Besides, the kid can roll faster than any other child that I know of, and gets into as much trouble as a crawler can.
Hugs to Maggie, hope she feels better soon!!
Comment by Jennifer — September 26, 2009 @ 7:38 am