Well, Che has been drooling a lot lately, and gnawing on his little fists. Wednesday night, my husband thought he saw a bit of tooth developing below Che’s gums. Yesterday morning, that tooth had broken through! For you dentists out there, it is tooth 81 using the FDI two-digit notation; tooth O using the Universal system.

Fortunately, I had purchased a few teething rings on sale at Target last month, so I’ve been helping him chew on them for the past two days. Normally, babies are around 6 months when their teeth start coming in, and they can hold their own teething rings. Che started grabbing and holding on to things this week, too. But, he can’t manage the teething ring yet, so I have to hold it for him. However, he generally prefers his fists anyway.

I’m a little perplexed by the speed with which Che is developing. I had hoped he would stay a little baby for a while, but he seems determined to grow up fast.
He has even started pushing himself with crawling motions. He’s not strong enough to actually lift his tummy and his head off the ground yet, but at the rate he is progressing, he’ll probably be crawling in a few weeks.

I’m glad I made the choice to hold him as much as possible during the first three months while I was home with him, because soon he’s not going to let me hold him very much. He’s going to be too busy exploring everything there is to explore.