Teething

Noah has recently been crankier than normal. At first I was really concerned and unsure of what was happening to my typical, extremely happy baby. Daddy (Bo) was the first to notice the "whites" behind his top gums. That of course told us that Noah's two top teeth would be coming in very soon. Yesterday while we were in the BX shopping Noah was playing happily in the shopping cart when he threw his head back in laughter and I noticed that his top left tooth had popped through. This now means he has 3 teeth. 1 on top and his two bottom ones.

Now it feels like since we noticed them he has just been such an bear. If his top teeth are anything like he bottom then his next top tooth should come in any day now. Today was his fussiest of all days. Of course it would be considering I have gone off my migraine medicine and had a horrific headache all day! Bo and I gave Noah a bath and decided that maybe we would just go ahead and lay him down and see if the bath and soothe him enough to give him a good nights rest. After putting Noah in his crib he immediately bounced up holding onto the railings of his crib and in the process of trying to basically chew through his crib railing he began to jump up and down and as he did he busted he top gum right where we are waiting for that next tooth to pop through. Praise the Lord that after he did that he only cried for a few moments, which was just as long as the bleeding lasted which wasn't very long, and then all seemed to be better.

I can't believe that next Monday my baby will be 11 months old. I have no idea where the time has gone. All these new adventures that we go through with Noah are overwhelming joyful and sad. We waited so long to have Noah and it's taken no time for him to go from a helpless newborn baby into this very independent almost toddler. I thank God everyday for the wonderful blessing that is my son and pray that God grants us many, many, many more days with our "bean." Since he is on loan to us from our Lord and Savior I know all to well that he can be taken away from us at any moment. My life truly feels complete with Noah in it and I feel so wonderfully blessed that the Lord chose Bo and I to be Noah's parents.