Cash has been really good while his little baby teeth are errupting through his gums. the only problems we've had are diaper rash and extra clinginess. no crying, no fussing, nothing that we can't handle.

toofs

upon further inspection Cash is getting BOTH of his bottom teeth!!

toof

cash definitely has a tooth coming in. we've been waiting for 2 months - through drool and slobber and red cheeks and snotty noses, we can actually feel a tooth coming in. just in the last few days it has become apparent. its really hard to keep our little boy still to take a picture so you'll have to take my word for it. i felt it with my finger and it feels like the lower left tooth but we wont know until it grows in a little more. yea!! so excited, we did the happy dance. just shy of 6 months - baby Cash gets his first tooth!

so tired

Cash slept most of the day on Monday at daycare and then went to bed promptly at 7:30 that night. I had to wake him up at 7am this morning so i could leave for work. he was sleeping so soundly. I guess thats what happens when your cousin comes to visit and wakes you up each morning at 5 am by saying "where baby Cash is", "lets see baby Cash", "ohtay baby Cash", "wake up baby Cash".

We had such a wonderful visit with Wiley and Elizabeth - we wish we could see them all the time. I'm really glad we were able to do this even though Cash is young and probably wont remember the weekend i'll remember and be able to tell him how much he is loved by Wiley. Can't wait to see him again in August.

Wiley's here, Wiley's here

we have already had a lot of fun. we have played inside with a puzzle and punching balloons and we've been outside playing in the yard and putting rocks in Slider's doggie door. Wiley shared his toys with me - and even shared his hat. We took a bath together and played with the bubbles.

Great Big Weekend

we are all so excited anticipating a visit from Cousin Wiley, Auntie Elizabeth and Pop. Grammy is already here and wore me out playing today!

I love my walker, i have so much fun bouncing around in here. I play the piano, twirl the froggie and make lots of noise.

baby blanket

of all the toys and contraptions and machines Cash has there is one thing he doesn't have.

he loves to sleep holding onto something - i don't like him to have blankets in his crib so he usually grabs onto his bib but today he used a dishtowel. cash doesn't have a security blanket. poor baby - so mistreated. we're off to Babies r Us.

teeth?

The past two nights have been very hard on baby Cash. He has not been sleeping well, probably waking up every 2 hours or so. He is very unhappy when he wakes up in the middle of the night and actually cries - opposed to just stirring and making a little noise to let me know he is up (which is what he normally does). He’s been so uncomfortable in fact that he scratched his eye pretty badly, something he only does when he is frustrated and his hands become uncontrollable. Both nights he has woken up wet. Usually his super absorbent diapers keep everything in all night and then some. Now he has a little fever and runny nose and just seems generally uncomfortable. I can only assume since his runny nose is clear and just a nuisance that it isn’t an infection and signals teething and not an actual cold. I gave him some baby Tylenol and sent him off to daycare – I think this weekend will be nice for him to just relax and be taken care of by mamma.

scary

Last night i put Cash to sleep on his back and he was "talking" a little before he fell alseep. After the noise faded i went in to check on him before i went to bed and he was snuggled up close to the bumper on his crib - far from where i left him - on his stomach with his face burried in his arms. I flipped him over and went to bed. I woke up at about 3am (because that is what time Cash usually wakes up so i guess i'm used to it) and went in and checked him. Once again he was sound asleep on his belly at the opposite end of the crib. My doc says that he becomes the ruler of his own sleep once he starts rolling over but it is scary and strange to see your baby in a different place than where you left him.
Cash is also getting into eating rice cereal. We give him one meal of it a day (combo platter with rice cereal and breastmilk - the #3 dinner special) and he seems to like it. Not sure if he likes the actual food or the spoon going in and out of his mouth or the bowl he can grab or the dog that is attracted to all the leftovers but he likes it. We are still working on the consistency of the cereal - thicker stays in his mouth and is easier to clean up when it gets spit out in a large blob but it doesn't go down very easily. When the cereal is runnier more of it goes down his throat (by default) but it also runs right out of his mouth easier. Chandler changed a poopy diaper the other day and there was evidence of solid food - so we know at least somethings going down! and yes, Chandler changes poopy diapers.

Cash Van Winkle

bedtime: 8pm
wake up hungry: 5am
sleep some more: until 7am

Slobbermonster

Cash slobbers so much that when Chandler picked him up the other day Sylvia said she had to ask her husband if he had spilled something on Cash because his shirt was so wet!

New Tricks

Alright, so a few weeks back i was telling of Cash being the perfect little sleeper - that was then. This is now. Now Cash likes to perform his new tricks in his bead instead of sleeping. He will grab his feet and pull them to his mouth, he will flip over from back to front, pull or spit his dummy out of his mouth, he will roll from side to side, he will sing/talk/babble - anything but sleep. Last night it took 3 tries before he fell asleep. Finally i got him to sleep by putting him down on his side instead of his back.

What a difference a week makes

Last week Cash wanted nothing to do with the rice cereal i was attempting to feed him. he would just let it sit in his mouth and didn't event attempt to chew, swallow or even spit it out. Today however he was totally into it. Even though he was thrusting some of it out of his mouth he was actually making "chewing" motions and swallowing some. I think he ate about half of the cereal i mixed up. He even acted like he wanted more when we were finished. we'll keep trying and get better at it but i can't believe how different his reaction was today toward solid foods.