Teeth

From BambiniPt2

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Teeth are supposed to appear around seven months and after a long period of teething, there are two lower teeth in Nico's mouth. We are all very excited that our baby is now able to leave teeth marks in everything he bites (including fingers, documents and mama's neck). Luca has a mode we call "shark Boo" where he just opens his mouth like Jaws, and lunges at you. Its terrifying.

The last few weeks have been a big emotional roller coaster. I think its just the final throes of acceptance (that our former lives are over, dead, no more) and that we now are reduced to the personal servants of two 7 month old infants. I caught Barbara staring off into the distance this week and dared to enquire what was going on? She asked "are we ever going to be able to watch a movie again?"

I did my best to re-assure her that by the time we can watch a movie again our eyesight will be gone and we wont know what we are looking at. For some reason this wasn't as appreciated as I had hoped. It's a HUGE adjustment, and doubly so for Barbara who also has the hormone changes in her body to deal with.

A bad night is when Nico wakes up teething and will not go back to sleep. Then I have to walk around and rock him for a minimum of an hour. His record so far is 90 minutes. At 4am that is very taxing.

Barbara found a great bouncy seat this week for $9 here in Los Altos. Whats amazing about that is, everyone that comes here to sell anything usually doubles the price. It has some cool moons and saturns on it that the babies try to scrape off. I have bought one or two at BabiesRus for $45, but they are just cheap Chinese crud marked up 2000%.

We are now looking for car seats to try to help with Luca's phobia of traveling. We suspect it has more to do with being strapped in the seat than riding in the car. We are planning to go to Los Angeles for xmas so we need to figure out something that will work for him.