News

After 15 months of waiting we have a tooth! Right smack dab on the top (of course my son who is different in every which way would get teeth on the top first). Everyone I have seen whether a friend, family member or stranger always says, "How old is your son? And he doesn't have any teeth?!"

To which my reply was "Shut your dirty pie hole you god forsaken wench!"

Ok, not really. Mostly I just said, "Yeah, I know."

But many people were very supportive giving me examples of people they knew whose children did not get a tooth until very late, sometimes even 18 months.

So it is with great pride that I announce the arrival of Gideon's first tooth. And there are many more behind it. We can see one more on the top and a couple on the bottom.

Apparently new teeth should be accompanied by the use of the most annoying word a toddler can say, "no". I guess I should just be thankful it took this long for him to learn that word.

In other news, sleeping is finally getting better. His is still waking up at night but only once or twice a night, which is TOTALLY fine by me. Our pediatrician thinks this is a big problem, and suggested we "ferberize" Gideon. I, of course, don't agree. Call me a hippie-new-age-thinker, but I feel like Gideon just took longer in this arena. A friend of mine (you know who you are), told me not long ago that she thinks sometimes kids just need their mom and dad a little more some nights when they are working through something. I think Gideon was just taking his time and enjoying being with mom and dad. I am under the impression that he will grow out of this waking up in the night and will eventually not need our help anymore.

Also, the kid is growing only up and not out. He is only 19 pounds. I'm not surprised by his weight since I was always very thin as a child, but his height is definitely NOT from me. He is 32 inches tall. Somewhere in the 95% as I'm told. If he keeps this up he'll be taller than me by 5 years old.

We're up to about 20 words now which is fun. Of course we are usually the only people who understand his 20 words, but there they are none-the-less.

Life carries on...