I’m so very grateful that Kaylee has had a relatively easy time of teething. She gets a little extra crabby for a few days and is done. It’s been REALLY nice. That is until this last tooth. This one has been a beast! It really just makes me so grateful that her other teeth didn’t cause her this much pain. She hasn’t slept at all well the last couple of nights, and this morning woke up just thrashing in bed and crying from the pain. She is not a morning person (gets that from me,) and so was too tired to get over it and fall back to sleep after I got her some meds. So I had a lovely morning that started at 6am (normal is 8:30 9ish) with my ouchy baby crying nonstop for almost 2 hours. I finally got her to eat a couple of pancakes to fill her tummy. Then we put on shoes (over her jammies) and broke out the lipgloss. She finally fell asleep on the couch with all her favorite things to comfort her: Mom, Lamby, blankie, pillow, shoes, lipgloss, and the theme song of Friends in the background. It helped that her meds had kicked in so the pain was dulled, but I like to think it was my half awake and slightly insane by that point (not a morning person) mothering that did the trick. It was at this point that I took out my earplugs. 🙂 She was much happier when she woke up so we went outside to play. We finally broke out the sidewalk chalk from Auntie Sam, and had a blast with it. The rest of our day has been hit and miss, and I’m hoping this tooth comes in soon! Here’s to better mornings, and better days…