redkitchenette

On December 30th, Dav cut her first tooth on a plane ride from New Orleans to Houston. This did not make for a particularly pleasant flight. Teething in general has not made for a particularly pleasant baby at times. My daughter is generally a very happy, smiley little one. When her gums are swollen and achy, she is a whiner. That is totally understandable. I feel like we have been dealing with teething since she was three months old. Now she is almost six months and her first tooth has finally made its way out through the tender tissue in her mouth. 
   And I thought breastfeeding when she clamped down  before was painful. Geesh. Swollen gum clamping is nothing compared to incredibly sharp little baby tooth clamping.
   A few things have made this teething process a little bit easier for this household:
1. Frosen breastmilk chunks in a mesh feeder  2. Hylands teething tablets  3. Gum massage with mom or dad's clean fingers
   Dav absolutely hated that gum numbing gel, frozen teething rings, and cold washcloths. We never tried the giraffe, but we probably should have.
   Good day all. I'm off to watch some football and buy organic produce to make baby food with my beautiful new food mill. Have a nice one.

Welcome to my world, my head, and my life. It's January 2nd 2010 and I am already a day behind on here, since I meant to start this yesterday. But so it goes...
   The past few weeks were wonderful and chaotic for me and mine. My first holiday season as a mama was very exciting. Thanksgiving and Christmas with Jay's family, followed by my and Dav's first flight as a duo with no Daddy J around to carry things and five days in my hometown with family and old friends. Good times. Dav cut her first tooth on the plane ride back and had her first taste of food not produced by my body yesterday. Scary stuff!
  This year will bring new joys and new challenges for me as I try to live in as green and natural way as possible on an extremely (ridiculously, suffocatingly tight) budget.  I'm still trying to figure out this parenting thing and this co-habitating, co-parenting, life-sharing thing as well. I seem to be much better at the first bit.
   Well, I am off to drink a lot of coffee and wash the diapers that I should have done last night. Good day and happy new year to you all!