That Baby is teething again! His front top tooth on the left hand side is coming in as we speak. He officially cut it last Thursday, but it is still not fully 'in' if you know what I mean. I tried to get a picture, but he was having none of it. The only way to really see it is if you lay him on his back and tickle like crazy. Then when he laughs really hard, you can get a glimpse. But otherwise he's very close lipped if you try to get in close and have a look.
I took a bunch of pictures anyhow, even though the new tooth is not visible in any of them. You can see the bottom teeth quite well though.
I've been trying to take more pictures of him that have a variety of expressions. One tends to be biased towards the big cute smile, but there are so many other great/funny expressions that are equally memorable (and equally difficult to capture). I don't know if you've ever sat and just watched the expressions play over a baby's face, but really, they move like water, so quick and so changeful. I swear babies have more face muscles than adults. Ok, that's probably not physiologically possible, but maybe their face muscles are more flexible. As we get older our expressions solidify into a variety of socially defined sets and we loose that looseness and variability in our expressions. At least, that's my hunch.
Here's another good one: This is his mid-babble face. And he occasionally makes this 'grumpy old man' face where he scrunches his bottom lip up in sort of a reverse pout, probably because his tooth is bugging him. I have yet to capture it well in a picture though. Very fast, but very funny.
Another thing you many notice in these photos is The Baby's snazzy new necklace.
Its an amber teething necklace.
Which isn't a necklace for chewing on (though he would gladly chew on it if I let him) but rather a necklace to wear when going through teething. Apparently amber (which is made of fossilized tree resin, and is not a stone) contains a natural analgesic, which when worn against the skin, warms up and goes into the body and helps reduce the teething pain. Or something like that. More info here. As with many of these sort of things, its hard to say if it works or not, but really, any excuse for necklaces on a baby is fine in my books. And I love Amber. Its my second favourite semi-precious, after Carnelian.
But don't just slap any amber necklace on your baby if you are going to try this. As you can see in the photo above, this one is knotted between each bead, so if it does break, only one bead would go rolling away (or probably get ingested more likely). Also, the clasp is designed to break if enough pressure is put on it, so that the baby won't choke if it gets caught. And of course, he doesn't wear it around his neck at night. I just wraps it twice around his ankle under his sleeper, so it is still in contact with his skin. And no, I'm not getting any sort of kick back or freebie from the company that I bought this from. I just always saw these necklaces on the cute little hippie babies in Montreal, and wanted to try it out for myself.
Anyhow, despite the teething his is still his same old, really active happy self. Just with a bit more chewing than usual. Oh, and also, he actually even grinds his teeth a little! Which freaks me out, I hope it doesn't become a habit. Most likely its just the novelty of feeling his teeth touch each other, but its very odd to hear that sound coming from him. You know the one I mean, that gravely little grinding noise. Quite loud given that he only has three teeth.
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