Darn Teeth...

The past few days or so Landen has been very irritable. To the point that I was starting to question my parenting abilities and how we discipline our child. Maybe we needed to find a new way to do things. Then I noticed he was having quite a few runny poops, of course I blame that on the apple juice he was drinking. Sometimes that does that too him. Well.. last night I discovered our parenting skills are fine and the apple juice was not the problem. It's those darn teeth...

So, Landen started cutting his second set of molars. Actually he started cutting the first one.. so we have three more to go. Ahhh! I decided last night while I was laying in bed, unable to sleep because of no room and feet kicking me in the side, that I'd take a baby cutting teeth any day over a toddler. Well my toddler anyway. When they're little you give them some medicine, cuddle and nurse them. It always seemed to work well. With Landen, now being two.. he was screaming, holding his mouth, holding his ear, tossing, turning, crying, and he didn't want to take the medicine because he said it would make his mouth hurt more. He may be able to verbalize where the pain is now, but he's tricky and doesn't want to take anything to help it.

Last evening though.. I was really starting to think maybe he was sick with an ear infection because he was complaining that his ear hurt. I didn't put all the symptoms together at first. I gave him some Tylenol and we headed to bed. The bed idea wasn't going to work though.. he was starting to feel very warm and was now complaining of his mouth hurting. Ah ha... maybe it was all coming together now. Was he getting those second set of molars!?!? All the symptoms were right. Of course he wouldn't let me look in his mouth though. Not on my life! So.. we had to play a game... hahaha! I was Dr. Cow and I had to use my cow flash light to look in his mouth. Hey, when it's now going on 11:30 and your really tired, you'll try anything... And... it actually worked! I was able to find the little tooth and get the baby ora-gel on there. After that though, I was ready to be slugged because he hated it and me. He needed his Daddddyyy!

Once we got that all figured out and some more medicine in him for that bad high temperature he runs while cutting teeth, we were finally able to attempt the sleeping again. Sleep didn't work all that great because he was still feeling yucky, he's tossing and turning around in bed.. in our bed. Forget sleeping in his own bed, you couldn't even touch him without him waking up and then he'd get so upset because he needed his mommy and daddy... in the big bed. So last night was very little sleep and a very full bed.

Hopefully the next three molars aren't as bad. =)