teething

so the little one is super ornery tonight, and was screaming bloody murder while I got her undressed for the evening ritual (bottle, bath, book, bed).  I was planning on skipping the first three and putting her straight in her jammies, and getting her to sleep as soon as possible, but chels said that I should give her a bath, that it might soothe her. it made a little bit of sense, so I told chelsea to start a bath, and finished undressing skye. I put her in the bath, and she was calm for only a moment before she started screaming again.

I don’t know what made me do it, but I looked in her mouth at her bottom gums, and noticed something that was different from all of the other times I checked when chelsea cried “teething”…  there was a discoloration, in a straight line, in the middle of her gums, about where one of her bottom teeth would be, if she had any. It was sunk in a bit, and kinda grayish, like there was a tooth just below the surface.

Holy crap…  she’s teething.

despite what I’ve said before about how I don’t want her to get teeth because it will change how she looks and she won’t be the same…  I’m kinda excited that she is teething getting teeth (not so much excited for the teething part of it).

I don’t know why, but when I saw that, I immediately saw her in a different light, she is no longer a baby, she is a little girl.

I just wish it didn’t have to happen on my watch…