How long can you blame drooling, irritability, sleeplessness, etc…on teething if there’s still a lack of teeth? For the past month, The Buba has shown text-book symptoms of teething, and we are still awaiting another pearly white. He was a late bloomer in the teeth department–he’s 13 months and only has 4; however, so was I. According to my mother, I did not get my first tooth until I was 1. And, in fact, I had to have 6 baby teeth pulled because they wouldn’t fall out. Side note, at age 59, my father still has one baby tooth. Congratulations Hubby, this one you can confirm, he gets it from my side!
In addition to these text-book teething symptoms, we’ve recently witnessed a new one. While I can call it gnawing, the best way to describe it is to say that my child may have some beaver descendents. For awhile now, we had been noticing scratches on his wooden crib. Although the crib is a good one, we were fairly certain this was just a sign of wear and tear. However, after a quick glance into The Buba’s monitor, we realized that it was, in fact, our baby boy chewing the paint right off the crib. And now, after some time, it has successfully affected three sides of his crib (for some reason The Buba has decided to spare the backside) This crib, which had me agonizing over its purchase because I wanted the best, now looks like I got it out of the garbage can. This was one of the buys I was so excited about. This was to be an 18-year investment…a crib that turned into a day-bed, then into a double bed? Seriously, kid, thanks! This is The Buba’s first lesson in taking care of your belongings–Mommy’s not buying you another.
Now, should another baby be in my future, I vow to not buy the most expensive anything. Well, don’t quote me on it 
