Ethan had a big day today. He got his first busted lip. Wow, was that fun… He was in a great mood this morning, crawling all over the kitchen and playing with the plastic containers. He was getting really crazy, pulling some stunts, trying to crawl with one hand. Really, I don’t know what he was doing, but his hand missed the floor and he took a face plant. It was awful… I heard his teeth hit the floor and I just knew that he had knocked out a tooth on the tile. I picked him right up and noticed that his mouth was bleeding, but not gushing. I wiped him off and noticed his lip was swelling already. The bleeding stopped pretty quickly and I was able to see that it was just his lip, that the teeth were fine. After a few minutes, he was just fine and went back to crawling like a crazy man.

His happiness didn’t last long because his mouth started hurting from the teething. He has so many teeth coming in right now, its insane. The two on the bottom are just about to come through. I think that they are bothering him the most. I can see one of them just under the gums. The next two on top are also moving in, but I don’t think they’ll be cutting through quite yet. And on top of all of that, I think he’s starting to cut his first molars. I’m sure it will be quite a while before they come through the gums, but they are definitely starting to bother him already. His gums feel really weird back there, like they are opening up for the teeth to come through. He won’t let me look at what is going on. I know it is bothering him though, because his sticks his fingers waaay back in his mouth and chews on them.

Since his mouth was hurting so bad today from the busted lip and the teething, he did not want to eat with a spoon. He had a little yogurt for breakfast, but after just a little bit he started to really throw a fit. He just wanted to gnaw on the spoon. For lunch I decided to make him a little meal of real food. I finely diced some onion, orange bell pepper, yellow squash, and chicken and sauteed it in some olive oil. I really didn’t expect him to eat it, but he LOVED it!!! He gobbled it down by the handful and said “ummmm ummm ummmmmmmm” the whole time. He ate a ton of food for lunch. For dinner I roasted some chicken breasts and made squash casserole. For the first time, Ethan ate the same thing that we ate for dinner. I diced up the chicken and the squash casserole and mixed it together. Again, he ate it up and said “ummmmmm ummmmmmmm”. I thought it was pretty cool that he had so much table food today. He really did a great job feeding himself.

So most of the day, Ethan was really clingy and crabby. He was pretty inconsolable for a while. I had to be holding him and cuddling him or he was crying. I was out of ideas, so I pulled out one of his infant carriers that I hadn’t used since he was tiny. Infantino Sling Rider. I fully expected that he would refuse to sit in this thing since it has a belt to keep him in place and he is really too big for it. Wrongo… he loved it. It was so weird. He thrashed around and screamed and cried while I put him in the sling, but as soon as I put it on, he calmed down and stayed calm and quiet and cute. Amazing… the sling may be my new best friend. We went to the grocery store after work and I should have brought the sling with us. He had a little meltdown in the shopping cart. I had to give him some teething pellets because he got all crazy and started screaming and rubbing his face and trying to pull his ears off his head.

He was in a pretty good mood this evening after he had his dinner and a bath. Aaron was playing with him and there was somehow a headbutt involved. Aaron thought Ethan hit his nose, but he hit his mouth again and opened up the cut on his lip. This time I was able to see the problem – he cut the piece of flesh that connects his lip to his gums. It looks nasty. The incident occurred right about the same time that his motrin was wearing off, so he was all fired up again. Thankfully he calmed down as soon as I started nursing him for bed.

Sorry for the long rambling post with no pictures. I don’t have time for any new pictures right now. Maybe tomorrow…