We’ve had an eventful weekend here in Healdsburg, dominated mostly by the emergence of L’s molars—and the subsequent havoc that new teeth can wreak.
The poor thing is in agony. Her nose is running, pretty much non-stop. She’s got serious ear pain. And on top of all of that, our prize eater has been almost completely [...]

Whenever we drag L with us to wineries around our Sonoma County home, the people behind the tasting room bars inevitably ask us if we’d like to give her a cork to suck on while we sample their wine.
Without exception, we decline.
Tonight, however, in the privacy and safety of our own home, we decided to [...]

I’m learning quickly that in infants, teeth announce their arrival like kings of old—with lots and lots of fanfare.
Last night, the spectacle took a number of heinous forms, including multiple crying fits (one of them lasted 90 minutes…at 3 a.m.), an ornery little girl and a poop explsion that somehow managed to rocket from baby [...]

It’s all teething all the time in L’s world these days, and when traditional goodies such as teething rings, fingers and noses don’t provide relief, we turn to an out-of-leftfield technique suggested by L’s doctor: the frozen washcloth.
Per doctor’s orders, we wet the washcloth, roll it up like a piece of pizza dough then stick [...]

A much-anticipated visitor arrived in L’s mouth this morning: Her first tooth.
Powergirl and I had been suspecting incisor emergence for some time; over the last week or so, the baby inexplicably has been waking up in the middle of the night and has been drooling like a maniac.
Still, when the two of us spotted the [...]