Posts Tagged ‘ teething

Solid Food and the Teeth to Sink into it.

I must report that I have finally pushed out several teeth, both upper and lower. This has been a project fraught with many difficulties, to wit: sleepless nights, fits of weeping, red cheeks, a desire to bite things, and a most embarrassing propensity to drool. But the result is most pleasing, as it now allows me to sink my new found pearly whites into another recent discovery: Solid Food!

Solid Food

Solid Food

I have been dining on fresh pheasant in pomegranate sauce, truffles al dente, pan-seared Alaskan eel cakes, and many exotic dishes from the Orient. At least that is what Mother and Father say it is, but the flavor and texture is not much different from the good old-fashions milk I have heretofore been consuming. There is a pleasing thickness to this new concoction, and it makes a wonderful pattern of sticky white slop running down my chin and onto my bib. One excellent way to enjoy this new supper, I have discovered, is to wait for the spoon to just begin to enter one’s mouth and then blow out as hard as you can. This results in a most delightful explosion of sloppy white goop that covers most surfaces within a few feet or so. I highly recommend it.

The Teeth of Victory

The epic journey known as “teething” has begun for me. I know not what fate shall befall me, but I already know that it will occasionally hurt. I know this by the screams that echo through the hours of my travail.

Biting

Biting

It all began innocently enough, with but a trickle of drool running down my chin. At first I thought nothing of it, but then the trickly became a flood, and then the screaming began. Sudden, stabbing pains shot through my body, eliciting the howls of agony that have now become the stuff of legend. Soon I found my only solice in chomping and biting down on things such as: fingers, toys, more fingers, other toys.

chewing

chewing

And yet, for all my hard work, I still have nary a tooth in sight! I am told it could be another 3 months. That’s almost as long as I have been alive on this earth! Good grief, this tooth business is a messy one. Sorry, I shouldn’t talk with my mouth full.