Teeth!

After enduring periodic bouts of shrieking and drooling so much she looks like she's been swimming, the baby finally has a bit of tooth showing. It is in her lower left gum, like some snaggle-toothed hick. It's pretty sharp too: it must have hurt like a bastard. 

It still hurts like a bastard too, she is currently doing circuits of the floor, squealing and grabbing things, chewing them to fuck. She is better than she was first thing this morning though, my nose is covered with scratches and my lips are sore where she tried to twist them off. Got to go she is making for the door.

Baby 2.0

The baby has worked out how to crawl. This means that all my daily tasks now take just a little bit longer. It is almost impossible to dress her. She gets stuck under the sofa, or disappears altogether. She yanks open the bottom drawers and starts rummaging through my bank statements.

Today while I was feeding her lunch and she was pulling faces at me and laughing, I thought about how much she has changed. She used to be a little bundle of white blankets and spiky dark hair, and at the time it seemed like it was forever, but it was only a few weeks. She used to look totally like me, but now she looks like Lynne. She is changing so fast but I’m too close to it to notice it happening.

She was trying to stand up in bath tonight.

Progress Report

I’ve just realised that I haven’t actually posted on how the baby is getting on for fucking ages. I’ve been chuntering on about every other bloody thing.

Anyway, she’s fine. Thanks. She still doesn’t have any teeth, I was a bit premature with mentioning them, but I can see the shining little white buds under her gums if I gawp into her mouth for long enough. The teething pain seems to have subsided for now and will come and go, oooh, until the teeth actually come in. Which could be any time over the next year. In the meantime, everything in here is absolutely chewed to death and covered in slobber. Everything. She has gummy little hands too, and likes to grab my nose with her thumb up my nostril while she slaps me with the other hand. It's horrible.

I was premature with the crawling too. The baby can roll about the floor quite confidently and sometimes she kicks her legs when she is on her belly as if she is trying to find a purchase with her knees, but she hasn’t figured out that she needs to lift her chest of the floor with her arms to become truly mobile.

I suppose the main development is that she doesn’t grunt so much when she has a poo. This would make it hard to tell if she had done one, but she has decided she will no longer tolerate a dirty nappy. The signal is now a hoarse shriek that is sometimes so hoarse it makes her cough.

She babbles all the time and recently I have noticed that there are times when she seems to say ‘Dadadada’ and ‘Mamamama’ in what would seem to be appropriate contexts, but I know this is wishful thinking. She is far, far too young to be talking yet.

She isn’t the little pudding she used to be, but she is still just a baby. But sometimes, when we put her in a dress, she looks like a proper little girl.