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Merry Christmas to all!
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And to you and yours as well. 
Do anything special? We went to Mass on Christmas Eve and then stayed home on Christmas Day and watched movies all day.
Do anything special? We went to Mass on Christmas Eve and then stayed home on Christmas Day and watched movies all day.
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Thanks! Sounds like you and your family had a good Christmas.
Hee-hee, where to start with my holiday....
We went to my parents' on Saturday and were lambasted by anti-Catholic sentiment - successfully quelched because they didn't realize how offended we'd be by the suggestion we read "The Recycled Nun" by Barbara Richmond (as if! She left the church because her Mother Superior wouldn't let her sing for her own glory & also because she read "Good News For Modern Man" - not exactly valid reasons for breaking vows to God & leaving His Church). Anyway, Sunday was better. We went to Mass at a local church - lovely as usual - then had dinner with my parents and siblings, then we left for home. We had a lovely drive home watching it flurry in the headlights.
Monday, I had to work until noon, and then went out to my in-law's house. We had a lovely time with family (but didn't go to Mass, although it was originally planned). On Christmas Day, we just chilled out. Tommy and I played while Daddy slept in; then Daddy got up and made us breakfast. We opened our family gifts (I got "Crossing the Tiber" and "Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic"!) and played with the baby some more. It was nice. We still need to go to Mass, though.
Tommy got 2 top teeth for Christmas - what about your little guy? Is he about over this teething bout? We are still working on the other 2 top teeth, but those should arrive sometime around my birthday (in a few weeks).
Thanks for asking!
Amy
Hee-hee, where to start with my holiday....
We went to my parents' on Saturday and were lambasted by anti-Catholic sentiment - successfully quelched because they didn't realize how offended we'd be by the suggestion we read "The Recycled Nun" by Barbara Richmond (as if! She left the church because her Mother Superior wouldn't let her sing for her own glory & also because she read "Good News For Modern Man" - not exactly valid reasons for breaking vows to God & leaving His Church). Anyway, Sunday was better. We went to Mass at a local church - lovely as usual - then had dinner with my parents and siblings, then we left for home. We had a lovely drive home watching it flurry in the headlights.
Monday, I had to work until noon, and then went out to my in-law's house. We had a lovely time with family (but didn't go to Mass, although it was originally planned). On Christmas Day, we just chilled out. Tommy and I played while Daddy slept in; then Daddy got up and made us breakfast. We opened our family gifts (I got "Crossing the Tiber" and "Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic"!) and played with the baby some more. It was nice. We still need to go to Mass, though.
Tommy got 2 top teeth for Christmas
- what about your little guy? Is he about over this teething bout? We are still working on the other 2 top teeth, but those should arrive sometime around my birthday (in a few weeks).Thanks for asking!
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He started to have another one come in on the bottom last weekend; we were on the other side of the State at my wife's sister's. He was cranky, but not as bad as he has been on occasion in the past. We had a five-hour drive home in the worst snowstorm of the season so far; visibility was zip and considerable blowing and drifting. It was pretty, though!
Anyway, he has another coming in on the other side on the bottom, so he'll have a total of four teeth on the bottom when these finish up. He'll be ready for moose jerky in no time.
Anyway, he has another coming in on the other side on the bottom, so he'll have a total of four teeth on the bottom when these finish up. He'll be ready for moose jerky in no time.
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Believe it or not, I used to work with a guy who went hunting in Canada every year, and one year he came back with an 800-pound elk---and he had the whole thing made up into jerky.
800 pounds of elk jerky. Can you imagine?
Must be nice to have money.
800 pounds of elk jerky. Can you imagine?
Must be nice to have money.
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That's what *I* said. He was perpetually bringing plastic bags of jerky into the office and handing it out to anybody who wanted some. I mean, it was good, and all, but you can only eat so much of that stuff before you start to turn into jerky yourself. They put an awful lot of salt into jerked meat.
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:lol: :lol: :lol: *imagining Wols turning into a large piece of elk jerky* :lol: :lol: :lol:
Ew - the bottom teeth, eh? Are they as bad as those uppers, though? Sounds like our little guys are close in age (or at least teeth!).
Glad you made it home safe! We haven't had a decent snowfall for nearly a year! Hopefully soon.....
Ew - the bottom teeth, eh? Are they as bad as those uppers, though? Sounds like our little guys are close in age (or at least teeth!).
Glad you made it home safe! We haven't had a decent snowfall for nearly a year!
Hopefully soon.....
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Noah will be ten months old on Jan. 7th. How old is Tommy?
From what I hear, the real monsters are the back molars---they are so wide and round that they are really painful when they come in.
ZooMom? Am I correct?
From what I hear, the real monsters are the back molars---they are so wide and round that they are really painful when they come in.
ZooMom? Am I correct?
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I really hate to say that I have little experience with the terrors of teething. None of mine made too much of it. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/embarassed.gif ALT=":o"> It has been my experience though, that after the first few are cut, the rest are fairly easy. I think the reason for that is that baby has more resources for relieving the pain by the time the later teeth come in. He (or she) can get fingers, toys, food, etc...to the mouth on their own to gnaw to reduce the pressure and pain, so they are often comforting themselves even when you aren't aware of it. Most kids only have 4-6 teeth by the time they are a year old, and those are all in the front.
One big piece of advice though...
Stay AWAY from 'teething biscuits'. In any form! These are awful, messy, sticky cookies that surely came from the mind of a childless person or a sadist. They do nothing to help teething pain. They only get mushy, and can break off in large chunks that baby can choke on.
Best thing to calm teething baby...your own finger dipped in a flavored drink. Tea, Coke, Kool-Aid, even water will work but may not distract as well. Avoid bitter or acidy drinks like coffee or orange juice, that might just make them madder. Just dip and rub the gums gently. Dip and rub. Dip and rub. Watch it though, even gums can bite HARD.
God bless...
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One big piece of advice though...
Stay AWAY from 'teething biscuits'. In any form! These are awful, messy, sticky cookies that surely came from the mind of a childless person or a sadist. They do nothing to help teething pain. They only get mushy, and can break off in large chunks that baby can choke on.
Best thing to calm teething baby...your own finger dipped in a flavored drink. Tea, Coke, Kool-Aid, even water will work but may not distract as well. Avoid bitter or acidy drinks like coffee or orange juice, that might just make them madder.
Just dip and rub the gums gently. Dip and rub. Dip and rub. Watch it though, even gums can bite HARD. God bless...
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I hear you there, Sandy. The closest we ever came to teething biscuits was zwieback toast, which my sister swore was the greatest stuff ever invented. Noah took one taste of it, spat it out, and glared at me with an expression which clearly said, "What the hell is this, Dad???"
He sticks to plastic teething rings or toys, pretty much. My sister-in-law teethed all her kids on huge dill pickles, but Noah doesn't like them, either. He likes graham crackers, but I won't give them to him except at mealtime, when I can keep an eye on him. The dog loves this, since anything that he tosses over the side, she gets.
He was a ring-tailed ripsnorter all day yesterday; all he did was yell and cry and whine, and although I put him down for naps three different times, he wouldn't sleep over about twenty minutes and then started screaming. This was not hepful for Daddy, as I have a vicious cold, my throat feels like it's been sandpapered and wrapped in burlap, I ache all over, and I felt like I'd been beaten by three big men with wooden clubs for several hours. I was never so happy as when Mommy came home from work; I more or less said, "He's all yours, Mom," and I zoned for a while.
My condition continues to deteriorate, although I can report that the cold is robust and healthy and appears to be quite strong. I hope the kid chills out tomorrow, because I'm starting to resemble one of those cartoon characters who stands there after having a ton of dynamite blow up in his face, with the little bubbles popping around his head.
Now I know why my mother was so cranky when she had a cold when I was a little kid.
He sticks to plastic teething rings or toys, pretty much. My sister-in-law teethed all her kids on huge dill pickles, but Noah doesn't like them, either. He likes graham crackers, but I won't give them to him except at mealtime, when I can keep an eye on him. The dog loves this, since anything that he tosses over the side, she gets.
He was a ring-tailed ripsnorter all day yesterday; all he did was yell and cry and whine, and although I put him down for naps three different times, he wouldn't sleep over about twenty minutes and then started screaming. This was not hepful for Daddy, as I have a vicious cold, my throat feels like it's been sandpapered and wrapped in burlap, I ache all over, and I felt like I'd been beaten by three big men with wooden clubs for several hours. I was never so happy as when Mommy came home from work; I more or less said, "He's all yours, Mom," and I zoned for a while.
My condition continues to deteriorate, although I can report that the cold is robust and healthy and appears to be quite strong. I hope the kid chills out tomorrow, because I'm starting to resemble one of those cartoon characters who stands there after having a ton of dynamite blow up in his face, with the little bubbles popping around his head.
Now I know why my mother was so cranky when she had a cold when I was a little kid.
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Tommy will be 1 on Jan 30th, so they're not too far apart. He's been on the slower end of some of his physical development, probably because he is so huge (26 lbs @ 11 mos). Boy, that mind, though, he's quick (which can be scary! :lol: )
I have heard that the molars are quite painful as well. Thank goodness he's a slow teether, and we don't have to deal with that for a short while!
I hate the teething cookies too! I find that a graham cracker or animal cookie is much cleaner, although we are huge advocates of Cheerios here. They are very clean, the cat loves the leftovers, and dissolve quickly enough that choking isn't a problem. I like the dip and rub proposition! We can't get our fingers in his mouth to even check, but I bet he'd open up for something sweet! :lol:
((((Wols)))) Here's to fighting off that cold! It's no fun to be sick with children - especially teething babies. I agree - now I know why my parents were grumpy when they had colds!
Amy
Boy, that mind, though, he's quick (which can be scary! :lol: ) I have heard that the molars are quite painful as well. Thank goodness he's a slow teether, and we don't have to deal with that for a short while!
I hate the teething cookies too! I find that a graham cracker or animal cookie is much cleaner, although we are huge advocates of Cheerios here. They are very clean, the cat loves the leftovers, and dissolve quickly enough that choking isn't a problem. I like the dip and rub proposition! We can't get our fingers in his mouth to even check, but I bet he'd open up for something sweet! :lol:
((((Wols)))) Here's to fighting off that cold! It's no fun to be sick with children - especially teething babies. I agree - now I know why my parents were grumpy when they had colds!
Amy
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Jan. 30th, eh? My Dad's birthday was Jan. 31st.
Noah was pretty good yesterday, although he got a little bit cranky late in the afternoon. As for me, I did no more than I had to. I had just about enough energy to take a shower, and that's about it. Of course, ever since he came along, showering is a hit-and-miss proposition anyway; keeping an eye on him, and laundry, and all my other household duties, takes up so much of my time, that bathing is always on the back burner. I haven't been this cruddy on a consistent basis since I was in combat.
Thanks for the warm wishes, and I hope they take effect soon. At the present time (2:30 AM---can't sleep with this cold) I feel like I'd have to get better to die.
Blessings,
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Noah was pretty good yesterday, although he got a little bit cranky late in the afternoon. As for me, I did no more than I had to. I had just about enough energy to take a shower, and that's about it. Of course, ever since he came along, showering is a hit-and-miss proposition anyway; keeping an eye on him, and laundry, and all my other household duties, takes up so much of my time, that bathing is always on the back burner. I haven't been this cruddy on a consistent basis since I was in combat.
Thanks for the warm wishes, and I hope they take effect soon. At the present time (2:30 AM---can't sleep with this cold) I feel like I'd have to get better to die.
Blessings,
---Wols.
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