Teething Trouble

Oy vey. Rutherford has being busting chops lately! We think he's teething - although I am beginning to learn that "teething" is not necessarily something that happens with any great predictability, nor something that is just limited to a tooth spontaneously erupting along his gums. It's sort of the generic catch-all term for the fussiness, sleeplessness, drooliness, rashiness period that started somewhere about six months and continues for an indeterminate amount of time. (Two weeks?! Three months?! Forever?!)

Necessity being the mother of invention, we have found a few things that seem to have helped. The big one is the mesh teether. It's basically a wee mesh bag with a baby-friendly handle that we can whack frozen fruits into that he can suck and gum on without fear of choking. He loves it! He's been having honeydew, cantaloupe and watermelon in it and it'll keep him busy for about ten minutes or so. At least enough time to pick up the kitchen or grab a snack :)

In any event, he did sleep much better last night and had a couple of great naps today, so maybe we'll have a nice teething break. Poor little guy!

When he has a fussy day, I do get that magic time during his naps where I hold him, rock him, tell him that's he's my beautiful baby boy and he looks like this:
Makes everything else disappear.