Kiana has been teething like crazy this week. I can't believe that she's only 4 months old, and it's already happening! Maybe I just didn't recognize it when Aidan was this little. (?) She woke up screaming in the middle of the night a couple of nights in a row, and has been horribly grouchy unless we get her infant Tylenol. That calms her down, and somewhat reduces her manic chewing on her fists, though she continues to be a drool monster and still does the "ahhhhhhh, heaven" swoon when we rub her poor little gums. Early in the week, I swore I saw a little white point on her bottom right gum, and last week I thought I saw a bit of blood down there, so I'm guessing some front teeth are working there way through and will be here sometime soon. (Kids grow up so fast! All the cliches are true. :( )
In the meanwhile, Aidan has been nothing short of magical with Kiana. She will be fussing and crying and totally uninterested by anything I do to distract her, and will only be distracted by Daddy for a little while. But if Aidan talks to her in his "birdy voice" (part falsetto, part squeak), she almost immediately calms down, gazes at him, and starts telling him (in a cooing, rather than screaming voice) all about how her teeth hurt and she's tired, but she really, really loves him and thinks that his squeak-singing is the most wonderful thing in the world! Aidan is a life-saver!!!!!!!!! There's been more than one time this week that I have, in tired exasperation, interrupted him with his trains asking him to "Please just talk to Kiana for a minute!". He almost always obliges, and the results are miraculous! I am so grateful!
In other big news: we tried a bottle with Kiana this week! Well, the first steps to a bottle, at least. Daddy let her play with the nipple of a bottle with a little bit of breast milk in it on Tuesday, Saturday, and Monday. She didn't manage to do any real sucking, but she did get some milk out, so she's starting to get the idea that milk can come from somewhere other than Mama. We've started the process!
Other than that, Daddy had a one day conference in Amherst MA and was away Thursday to Friday night, and we all managed to survive (we missed him, but both kids still got baths, so it was successful! THANKS to Christa for your tip on how to get TWO kids into and out of a bath! Having them both in there together AND by myself was a first!). Then we had a long Columbus Day weekend: Saturday was a little nuts: we did a make up class for Aidan's soccer school, stopped by the Innwood farmer's market, did more playing with clay (we love-love-love this!), grabbed a late burger at Five Guys, and came home in time for Aidan to pass out for a brief nap. I caught the end of our neighborhood Harvest Festival with Kiana while Daddy took him home to sleep.
Saturday we chilled out to recover from the running around, and Sunday, Daddy took the kids out to play at the playground a few times so I could get some work done (Lord of the Rings and IR book revisions at the moment, alternating with Post-Doc applications). Kiana even got to play soccer, with Aidan! :) Now it's a short week -- hooray!
PS Cute quotes from Aidan this week:
- "Kiana, did you WAGGLE me?" (he loves making up his own language)
- "Mama/Daddy, you're a silly CHICKmunk!"
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