Golden Pig Tales

They are now showing signs of growing. The teething has been. Or the teething is.

I was able to sooth Ezra from two likely fussing moments caused likely by teething before 11 P.M.. The third instance of Ezra fussing was near or after Midnight. During third instance, Ezra was beyond my ability to sooth for he was standing and crying and stressing about teething and detachment and tiredness at night, and that usually means -v- will need to sooth Ezra from the teething and the detachment and the tiredness and the fussing fit that is keeping Ezra awake. Ezra slept soon after the sooth of -v- near or after Midnight.

Teeth #8 and #9, #10 Are. They are probably causing pain as they push through the gums, so Ezra can fuss, and we will help sooth for sleep.

Oh, they are coming. Tooth #7 and tooth #8 are coming. They can be seen. They can be heard and they can be felt. They can be heard because Ezra has been fussing. They can be felt because with the teething is the drool. I only hope tooth #7 and tooth #8 come sooner rather than later. Even if they do come sooner it will only mean that the molars are not far behind.

…The molars. I have heard stories about the fussiness the molars can cause.

It was a night of Ezra cries. Very loud and very long and very clear crying.

His teething was very intense last night, or (and) he had gas caused by eating rice pudding and sucking down a lot of air while eating rice pudding. He woke three or four times during the night. Or rather I woke three or four times during the night after hearing Ezra’s cries. Ezra could have waken more, but I could have slept through. -v- was the one who worked the night shift of hanging with Ezra. I worked the morning shift of hanging with Ezra.

I am tired. -v- is very tired.

It feels like he is a newborn again waking up every two hours in reaction to some new sensation Ezra is experiencing. This time, however, Ezra is reacting to teeth pushing through his gums for the first time, or (and) lots of gas.

Yo. EZ-O moved into his own crib this weekend! Awwww yeah! He’s livin’ large now. His spot is the best place in the whole house for shizzle.

Yes, Ezra made the move from the porta-crib to his real, sturdy comfortable crib this weekend. 

It all happened so quickly, at least according to Kalab. However, I’ve been working up to this for weeks. It just happened abruptly this weekend because I woke up on Saturday night 4 times before 3am-  Ezra was alternately snoring and talking in his sleep, or would lose his pacifier and wake up and decide he wanted a snack - and by 2:30am felt that he had to be moved right then and there. 

I have personally been trying since Grandma O left to only get up once to feed Ezra and otherwise have been trying to get him to soothe himself back to sleep when he wakes up(Kalab was just not informed of this). This is hard to do when he’s in the room with you and every move he makes causes you to wake up. And I think it’s hard on him as well - I’ve read that your baby can smell your milk from up to 2 or 3 feet away, so when they wake up and smell the milk, they probably feel like they might as well get some. Kind of like if you’re a coffee drinker, the smell of coffee brewing can wake you up and get you out of bed.

The other reason for the move is that I had this thought a week or so ago that took hold and wouldn’t leave me alone -  part of the reason he was so stuffy and snoring was because he was too close to the floor and the level of the heat vent, in front of which both our cats like to nap . So I imagined that he was inhaling a huge amount of dusty, dirty, cat-dander-filled air and this was causing him to sleep badly, and would probably lead him to develop allergies or asthma or some other lung problems later in life. This may or may not be true, but at 2:30am on Sunday this was all I could think about and this is what actually sparked the big move to Ezra’s big crib this weekend.

He seems to like his crib, and I think he’s OK with being in his room alone. Although he has been putting up something of a fuss at night, that could be attributed more to his teething - another of life’s abrupt changes he’s got to go through.

In Ezra’s case, more teeth does not mean eating more food. In fact, it’s sort of the opposite. He had a rough day with the teething, and went to bed before we could try feeding him again. Maybe tomorrow will bring less teething pain and more eating for Ezra.

Kalab got in on the action and fun of feeding Ezra yesterday. I wish I had taken video of it, but actually, it was pretty much the same as this video:

Another tooth eruption has occurred. A second tooth is growing from gums right next to Tooth #1.

This is both exciting and tiring. Exciting because it’s exciting to see Ezra grow in so many ways. Tiring because the other tooth has pushed Ezra over his pain threshold making him a more fussy Ezra all day and all night.

-v- has become obsessed with Ezra’s tooth. A tooth that can now be seen with out -v- trying get Ezra to open his mouth and move and hold his tongue away from his gums, so she can stare at the tooth. A tooth that when first discovered by -v- could only be seen with a mother’s focus and attention.

-v-’s enthusiasm for the tooth is infectious. Now I am looking for the tooth. A tooth now seen with ease when Ezra opens his mouth and moves is tongue.

Ka Boom! It’s Ezra’s first tooth!

He’s been teething, supposedly, for the last month, so I’m always looking at his mouth trying to see a tooth. Usually I just see spit and maybe some regurgitated milk.

I was looking at his mouth today while he was lying on his blanket by the window, and talking to me in his special way. I could see something on the bottom right of his gumline - a little white bump. I thought I saw something there last night, but wasn’t willing to bet that it was a tooth. Having now looked at a bunch of tooth eruption charts today on the internet, I am almost positive that the little white bump is a tooth about ready to erupt!