And just like that, little EC has a tooth. She hasn’t been crying, fussing, or anything. No disruption to the sleeping schedule. But she does stuff everything, and particularly her sleeping blanket, into her mouth as far as possible and bite hard. She falls asleep and wakes up with that blanket in her mouth. Her stuffed animals now look mangled and are possibly biohazards.

The tooth is a lower front tooth. She won’t let me look at it, so I just have to stick my finger in and feel it.

If she’s this good about all the rest of her teeth, we should have an easy time of it. I suppose I should now figure out how to brush the tooth. The pediatric dentists of course recommend that we start brushing her gums from 1 month or so. I ignored that, so now it’s time to start.

On the food front, she enjoys and is successful at picking up little bits of food and sticking them in her mouth. Today she tried cake. That went over well. Normally it’s just toast. Or spaghetti. Or cheese. Eggs are still off limits. She likes drinking water now.

And she’s also begun, though not mastered, intentionally rolling from one place to another to get something she wants.