We're so physced of spotting the emergence of her lower front teeth, two wee white pearls on top of her gum line this morning. This explains the fever and the fussiness she had gone through for the past week.
A baby blooper happened last night while we were lounging on the couch watching the telly. She planted her mouth on my big toe, all sloppy and drooly. It's hilarious to see the smirk on her face when she got caught for her 2nd big-toe-nimble attempt. That's one sneaky baby!
The thing goes through her little mind always wonders me. In a second she's all about mama and then all of a sudden her mind just wanders off. You can tell from her face expression that she just reminds of something that she needs to do it right away. She simply takes off and crawls away to attend to her urgent task, leaving mama alone in her room.
This evening, her wandering mind again interrupted our social time abruptly. Mama followed behind her to see what's she up to. She headed towards our room and climbed up to the giant tin of danish butter cookie placed beside the computer tower. No surprise, that's her favorite thing on the ground in our room. What surprised me was somehow her little fingers managed to flip the cover off and unleash the heavenly bliss inside. It took no time for her to start digging inside the tin, throwing out the cookie papers in search for the goodies. At one moment, her frantically movement all came to a halt. The next thing was seeing her pulling out her hand with a butter cookie with a wondrous expression. Though, she didn't put the cookie into her mouth right away; instead, her the other hand went pulling out another cookie. One bite from each hand at a time, and bang on the tin cover intermittently. She sure knows how to enjoy cookies. Heavenly.
Today, we brought Elle back to the doctor office to make sure her ear infection is cleared up. She was in a pretty mood all along until the nurse stepped inside the room to give her a temperature check, followed by the weight-in. Her face turned red immediately and then began to cry out at the top of her lung, shrill and loud. I can now understand what her dada had gone through at her 9 months checkup.
Good news are, her ear infection is gone and tooth is shaping up below the gum line. It has been only 2 weeks since we have followed the doctor's advice to give her tap water. The fluoride in the tap water will help baby teeth growing. We'll see how long the tooth will be breaking through the gum line.
Finally, sign of tooth. Phew.
I was pushing Elle in her stroller around after lounging in B&N for a while. Until I found people's amuse expression on their face when they looked at my little bub inside the stroller, I realized the last time I peeped on her to check how she was doing was quite a while ago. At a quick glance of her, all I saw was a hat! Her head was falling forward into 45 degree angle and buried inside her bundle. I pulled her head up and she's all drooly and soundly slept. I almost burst into laughter when seeing her head falling forward again the second I took my hand off. Duh! Unmindful mom should have reclined the seat to sleeping position.
Elle's going back to daycare this morning. Fever gone, but crankiness remains. Soothing doesn't help much, whereas diversion seems to work for a short period. Oh, the frustration of the more we try to calm her down, the more she pushes us away, screaming and twisting her body like a snake in our arms! We have never seen such a quick change in temperament side of her. She'll go from laughing one second to hysterics the next. We know she does not feel well and frustrates for some reasons. It could be a troubled stomach, ear infection, teething, a combination of all of the above or who knows what! It's truly a guessing game now.
The phobia of feeding her comes back to us again. Feeding involves lots of arm-wrestling, coaxing, and diversion. It's real hard for us to let go when she doesn't feel like eating at all, for the whole day. We try to hang in there, lighten up a bit and try not let her erratic behavior drive us over the edges.
Yesterday afternoon, Hin had to pick up Elle early from the daycare as she ran a fever of 100.9°F. We speculate the teething has something to do with the fever since she has been gawning on her hands and drooling a whole lot insanely lately. Last night, she was awaken easily and kept tossing and turning on bed when she was asleep. Aside from her fever spiked to 103°F past midnight, she was hardly consolable during the longest stretch of awake time between 2:30 am and 5:00 am. It's a relief that her fever drops to 99°F in the morning. Yet, no appetite for food.
Hopefully, we have a better night today.
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