So our just-turned 11 week old baby has been drooling a lot and has chapped cheeks and a cough as a result. Gam Gam saw him the other day and asked, “Is he teething?” to which Logan replied, “How should I know?” As far as we know, teething is something babies do that results in teeth… He did a little reading on the subject in our What to Expect book and found Elliot to have about 9 of the 11 listed symptoms… I guess he is doing everything else early, he might as well get this out of the way too. Logan got him a teething ring that goes in the refrigerator and we have been trying to find other things that he might like to chew on. We walked over to a yard sale in the neighborhood yesterday with Elliot in the Bjorn and he chewed on the side of the carrier the whole way there. We gave him some Tylenol yesterday afternoon because he was getting rather inconsolable. Fortunately we haven’t needed to do that again yet…
I still haven’t gotten a video of him rolling back to front, but not for lack of trying. I can confirm at he can do it, but my timing has been off on filming. He also was grabbing his own hand this afternoon, which kinda made him mad because he couldn’t figure out who kept grabbing his other hand!
Yesterday, Logan smoked a pork butt and salmon and we had friends and family over to eat it. I wasn’t in an entertaining mood since I was tired, but I eventually came down and had a nice time. Aunt Lisa was there and she let me show her all of Elliot’s pictures from his recent photo shoot which made me happy. Gam Gam and Lisa held him and played with him giving Logan and me a break. They were also nice about saying things like, “Look, he wants his momma!” which stroked my poor little new mom ego.
Today we played Linzy’s Stick Your Tongue Out game. He is getting quite good at it and he seems to really like our reaction to it.
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