This morning, while we were getting ready for work/school, Callen was playing on the floor in the bathroom and chewing on one of her toys. Nick said, "Miss Callen, are you growing a tooth in there?" To which I replied, "No Way, " and promptly stuck my finger in her mouth to feel if her gums were swollen {fully expecting them not to be}. To my surprise, what my finger found was the jagged edge of her first tooth poking through the bottom gum!
I say to my surprise because Carter didn't get his first tooth until 13 months. These two couldn't be more different--it continues to amaze me! Carter was a super easy baby from the beginning--no fussiness, always napped well, slept through the night at 8 weeks, and did most everything except walking early--rolling over, sitting up, crawling, etc.Callen, on the other hand, started out life with 8 weeks of fussiness {which I am happy to say disappeared with the same vigor with which it arrived, and she has been a tremendously pleasant baby ever since}, waited until 4 months to sleep through the night {even thought I quit feeding her at night well before that!}, didn't roll over until around 6 months, which was about when she started sitting up, and hasn't shown much interest in crawling. BUT, she has a tooth!
I guess--at least in my case--it is true when "they" say that each child is unique and develops at his or her own pace. It is a great learning for me to just delight in each stage that she is experiencing and to not try to force her to develop on Carter's developmental schedule.
I am sure she'll start trying to keep up with him soon enough!
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YAY Callen! During Easter brunch, I just thought she REALLY liked gumming my finger, but apparently there was something to it!
Love y'all!
Aunt B
That is so funny and so true! I feel like I'm reading my blog from when Anna was a baby. We did the same thing. I think that we were just so busy with 2 kids that we really weren't paying attention and then, oops, there it was - the first tooth! And MM didn't get her first tooth until around 13 months too, but Anna was way before that! They are still as different as night and day!
Way to be your own self Callen lady. Just get out of her way and let her go.
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Bamma
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