Lucy’s Blog

This was supposed to be a post about our first successful camping trip however 2 very big milestones just happened that I had to blog about. Don’t worry the camping trip will be blogged about-we are just waiting for the pictures from our friends.

Lucy has been teething this past week and we had some really bad nights but while camping Lucy did great. I wasn’t able to check her mouth all weekend because when you’re camping, your hands are never clean. After my shower today (ahhh…what a nice shower) I checked Lucy gums and there was nothing. I thought to myself, “I wonder if I’ll know when a tooth actually comes?”

This afternoon Shaun suggested taking a walk down to get some yogurt. While walking she was chewing furiously on Shaun’s finger. I looked again, and nothing.

We got home and had Lucy on her tummy. She was very happy, inching along on her tummy (yes she’s sort of moving while on her tummy-veeeery slowly). Suddenly Lucy started screaming. I thought she was just frustrated being on her tummy. She can flip over but wasn’t and kept getting more and more upset. I flipped her over and her crying just got worse. I picked her up (which is a sure fire way to get her to stop crying), the crying got even worse. I looked in her mouth and saw a blood spot and a sliver of white. I felt and there it was-her first tooth! She cut her first tooth on the right front! I was sure it was going to be on the left-that’s where she’s been chewing, but NO-right front.

I was amazed that I could pinpoint when the tooth actually came in-around 6:20 PM on April 12th! Very cool.

About 20 minutes later, we had a happy Lucy again. I started feeding her avocado and oatmeal. She was eating it voraciously when a pain wave hit again. I got her out of her seat and soothed her. After she calmed down she pointed at her sippy cup. I gave it to her and got a big smile. For those of you who don’t have kids or don’t remember-this is HUGE. Lucy can show us what she wants now. Shaun saw it and said “Did she just point at her sippy cup?” We thought maybe it was a fluke, but then she did it again in the bathtub. She wanted her ducky and she let me know by pointing at it. WOW.

The munchkin cut a tooth and started pointing at what she wants all within an hour!