Toothless Wonder No More!!!
He did it! He finally did it! That’s right – Joshua finally cut his first tooth this week! Needless to say, we are really, really excited that our eighteen-month-old is no longer toothless. It was about time.
He had been feeling badly for the past week or so, but it was hard to tell if he had caught a bug going around or teething. A slight fever and prodigious runny nose are symptoms of the bug and teething. Emily had the bug, and we’ve had about a million false starts, so I didn’t think much of it.
When Chad went to check again last night, though, there was definitely something sharp poking out of his bottom gums. It was the much-anticipated first tooth! Hooray! And further inspection showed about another ten teeth ready to make their entrance as well, including his upper molars. That’s one of the downsides of my late teethers. While it takes forever to get that first tooth, they make up for lost time in a hurry and are all caught up by two. So Joshua has less than six months to cut nineteen more teeth. Yay.
I’m happy to put up with teething, especially since it’s finally accomplished something. Joshua is a voracious eater, and now he won’t be limited to only foods that he can gum. He can also start looking more like a big kid now that he’ll have some pearly whites to show off. My child is no longer the only eighteen-month-old without teeth!
How did you feel when your little one finally got their first tooth? How old were they?
