Day 150

See, I brush my own teeth mama!

That is what you said to me with you smile this morning! You did brush your teeth and did a pretty good job, and you also brushed the floor, and the toilet too...but none the less, you do brush your own teeth each and every morning and every night before bed.

*you may notice that I have changed how I write this blog...This blog started as something that I was going to do for Adeline. A reason to take more pictures and to document a year of her wonderful life. I am going to start (any maybe even go back and fix past entries as well) writing this blog as a dialogue to Adeline. Something for her to read as a letter from her mom in the very distant future; a way that for her to learn about what she was like as a baby. Please continue to read these letters as a way to stay informed about what is happening with us.

Day 127

Look at all those teeth...

Good thing Adeline knows how to brush her teeth, because she sure has a lot to take care of. 7 have popped and #8 is a very large bump on her top gums and #9 from what I can see will not be too far behind. As you may already know, Adeline is not the best teether around, so this has made for some very interesting days lately =) Here's hoping we get a break from teething some time before her 18th birthday!

Reading

Adeline Loooooooves to read!!!! And apparently she also likes to take out her teething pains on her books too ;) I love things that have dual purposes!

Day 105

Teething Trials

Teething with a vengeance continues, but hopefully the end is in sight!! This Adeline's 6th tooth, her top left lateral incisor, has begun poking out and been the cause of much pain on our lives this week. Adeline now has her front two top and bottom teeth and her top and bottom later incisors on the left side only. Which makes me laugh...oh how I love(d) symmetry. Even though she is a little more grumpy and wayyyy more irritable that usual, she is still a pretty happy baby; and she still loves to laugh!

Day 76

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Adeline has this sun shaped mirror and lately it has become one of her favourite toys. She will take it in her hands look into it then move it really close to her face and talk to the baby she sees in the mirror...it is tooooo cute. When she talks to the baby she has this really sweet voice (different from her every day voice) I think she really loves that baby!

Snaggle Tooth

That is what I have been calling Adeline since these top two teeth have been coming in...as it looks like they are coming in crooked because of the shape of her gums. For a while all I could see was just the corner of her tooth and it was a super sharp point. Well I finally got a picture of the top teeth!!! Do you see them there (I know they look so small), these ones seem to be growing in so much slower than the others. I think that her bottom lateral incisor is now bigger than these two and these ones cut through the gum (just a bit) 2 weeks before the other bottom one. I've been calling her Snaggle Tooth since these ones started coming in,

Day 50

Say Cheese

Adeline was hamming up the camera today! Just look at that toothy grin. I LOVE IT! And although she has a beautiful, happy smile in this photograph she was far from happy today. Her sickness has subsided, but her upper teeth are rearing their ugly heads and Adeline is taking it out on those around her ;) Her top teeth have not yet cut through but we are guesstimating that any day now we will wake up to more teeth and a much happier child.

Day 36

Happy Baby

Adeline had a great day today. She was happy and fun and playful all day. She even played all by herself for an hour and fifteen minutes while Mommy and Daddy did some basement cleaning. I was astonished! I didn't even know it was possible. She had some fun floor time, playing with her toys and then played in her jumper.

BTW take a look at Adeline's BIG teeth in the second pic ;)

Day 29

Look Mom, Two Teeth!

On Monday one tiny little tooth finally broke through and then just two days later the second. It only took me a week to get a picture of the evidence...here they are the tiny little teeth, it's kind of like Where's Waldo...can you find Adeline's real teeth?

Day 23

Bright Eyed and Bushy Tailed

Adeline's good days are usually determined by how she naps...well, today was a good day! I put her down in her bed and although it took her some time to get there, she fell asleep and remained that way for 1 hour and 40 minutes - which is a far cry from her usual 20-40 minute naps. When she gets enough sleep, Adeline is very nice to be around! She is happy and content. She plays well with others as well as by her self. Let's hope there are more to come!!!

Today was one of the happiest days I think Adeline has ever had I'm sure it doesn't hurt that the tooth she has been cutting for what feels like months has finally broken through. This is both exciting and depressing to us, as we know there are many more teeth to come and with them come those super fussy, no-sleep days.

Day 22

Tiny Little Tooth

I know you can't see the tooth in this picture...heck you can't even see the tooth in person yet, but you defiantly can feel it.

Day 16

Teething Trials

I love my little Adeline to death, but sometimes I just wish she was a little less sensitive. Right now she is teething and everyone knows it. When I say everyone, I mean everyone! The lady down the street just "popped over" today to welcome us to the neighbourhood. We have been living here over a fracken year already! What I think really happened is she was wondering by and heard our screeching child and wanted to know what kind of pain we were inflicting on her. Well at least she stopped by rather than calling child services on us 8). So back to the teething...to help, Adeline sucks on the sleeve of her shirt ALLLLLLL day...it's kind of gross, but also kind of cute (see cute picture above).

Oh ya something else...She sat!!! Long enough for me to realize that she was going to be sitting for a while, grab my phone, open the camera and actually take the photo...so it was a little while. She still topples over at the drop of a hat and proceded to face plant right onto the bed, the carpet, the kitchen floor, the couch or whatever else she happens to be sitting on. I am hoping she quickly learns to use her hands to help her out, or we are going to have a sad baby on our hands every night and you may even be seeing some pics of our cutie with a rug burned face.