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Archive for December 10th, 2009

Teething Bling

Posted by Heather Manning On December - 10 - 2009

So cool! I got another package in the mail yesterday and I had no idea what it would be. I opened it up and was excited to see a Smart Mom necklace and bracelet teething jewelry.

Let me show you their pictures because they are so much better than the ones I got of my wiggly worm.

I received the Jade Donut Shaped Pendent.

and the Mother of Pearl Bangle.

Now, let me tell you what life has been like with Christiano. He got those bottom 2 teeth in awhile ago and since then he’s been working on 2 top ones. His 3rd and 4th teeth. Not the top two middle ones, he’s getting in the 2 on either of side of the middle ones. I thought he was getting in his vampire teeth until they finally broke through enough for me to see which ones they were. Unless he was going to have a very large gap, there was no way they were his middle top teeth. He has been cranky, unbearable, impossible to live with, keeps me up all night, it’s been a pleasant few weeks.

He is chewing on anything he can get his gums on. Any time he comes at me with his mouth I flinch because I’m not sure if he’s going to kiss me, give me a zubert, or bite me. I’ve been bit so many times nursing these past couple of weeks. It hurts.

I saw this jewelry and really wanted to test it out on him. Now, I don’t have a picture of me wearing the necklace while he’s chewing on it because I couldn’t get a picture from that angle that wasn’t blurry. So, I took it off and let him chew on it for the picture. He knew what to do with these as soon as he saw them. Straight into his mouth and the giggles that followed. I really wish I had recorded it. It must have felt good because he doesn’t giggle like that very often. (He giggles a lot, just not one continuous giggle while he’s playing with something.)

December09-19

Don’t mind our Christmas tree ornament box. Or what we use as a box. The tree was going up while he was enjoying the necklace.

December09-18

Here he is with the bangle yesterday morning. He was so funny! When he was crawling, he was carrying it in his mouth like a dog would carry a bone.

The test came when we went to Walmart last night to get new ornaments because half of mine have mysteriously disappeared. The boys and I went off to Walmart while Pato took the girls grocery shopping. Christiano was sleeping in the car and woke up on our way in. I put him in the cart and he was fussing. I let him lean his head on my chest while I was walking and then he noticed the necklace. Straight in his mouth it went and he chewed on it contentedly while we were shopping.

So, this gets a huge old

thumbsup

from me for keeping a tired baby content in the store! Plus it kept him busy while they were putting the ornaments on the tree. It didn’t stop him from dismantling everything within his reach as soon as he noticed the pretty stuff on the tree though. I don’t think anything could have helped that.
And here’s our tree finally put up -
December09-20
Yep, it’s kind of unbalanced. I don’t know why it might be top heavy with ornaments. Looking at my 9 month old tree destroyer. (See that picture to the left and on top? That’s my mom’s graduation picture. You can’t see it, but my dad’s air force picture is in the same frame with it.)
We keep talking about getting a new tree. I just can’t bring myself to part with it. I’ve had it for 8 years or so. It’s the first thing I bought for Jordan and myself after my divorce from his dad. (We moved out in November.) I wasn’t about to not have a tree for my then 18 month old at Christmas time, and I worked really hard to be able to get that for him. It was symbol to me of our independence. Our breaking free of a bad environment. Hard to replace that with a new one, no matter how many needles fall off of it.
My kids are out of school again today. The roads are not passable in the outlying areas of our school district. I guess 14.5″ of snow packs quite the punch. I need to go out and take pictures of it. But that would mean stomping through thigh high snow drifts to show you the best shots. Getting my nerve up. We’ll do that later today.

disclaimer

Thank you to Smart Mom for providing us with the necklace and bracelet teething jewelry

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