8 month cont...

My Bubba turns 9 months old today but there are a few things that I forgot to mention in my previous 8 month post...

Bubba now has at least 6 teeth. He just got his two teeth right next to his top middle teeth last week. I say "at least" because I can't really check the back without getting licked or bit :) Bubba has also started acting shy, which is so adorable!! If someone that he isn't too familiar with talks to him, he'll get his big ol' grin on and then just burry his little head in my shoulder or lay his head down on my shoulder! It's the cutest thing!!

He is also a fa-lirt!!! Any time there is a girl around he just laughs and stares...I tell him he looks enough like his dad he doesn't need to start acting like him too :)

Bubba also just received his first battle wound! He was pulling himself up and slipped and fell. But, on his way down he whacked his poor little baby mouth on the corner of our ottoman. He started bleeding and his little mouth was filling with blood. Being our first experience with this, we weren't really sure what to do. So, we sort of just went straight to the bathroom and rapidly contemplated how to get the blood out so we could see. We ran to the kitchen and grabbed his syringe for his meds and squirted water in his mouth, which he enjoyed :) After we got his mouth all cleaned out we could see two little bumps on the inside corner of his lower lip and then there were two little spots on the outside corner of his little lip. My poor little baby!! The syringe brings me to my next train of thought...

Bubba was diagnosed with his very first ear infection on Saturday :( He had been running a temp, which we assumed was due to his new toofers. He had also been holding his food in his mouth not wanting to swallow, which we also assumed for new back toofers. He also was getting little bumpies on his bod that wasn't making me very comfortable and he had not gotten from his last toofers. On Friday, his temp was higher then it had ever been before and it was still going up even after giving him Tylenol. Because I freak out over ev-er-y-thing, I called the on-call Dr. and he said to bring him in on Saturday, first thing just to make sure. He thought because of the temp and the holding of the food, it must be his little throat. The Dr. took one look in his little ear "Ear infection in there..." "Excuse me?! What?!?! Did you say-is or is not?!?! Ma'am, he's never even tugged or pulled or winced or anything with his ears!!!" "Yeah, sometimes we see children in for their well-child appointments with ear infections" Thinking to myself, um, ok, supposed to make me feel better but MY LITTLE BABY HAS AN EAR INFECTION AND I WOULD HAVE NEVER EVEN GUESSED THAT'S WHAT WAS WRONG!!! Yeah, so after the Dr. leaves and I had a mini break down, we go get Bubba's first prescription filled! Since he was sick I got him a couple other goodies while we waited for his prescription; a big ol' stuffed frog--when I say big, I mean bigger than him--new book, new Gerber Graduate Strawberry Yogurt Melts, and a new bath soap...apple and honey which smells ah-mazing!!

Here is a picture of his battle wound but you can't really tell...it's his lower left lip...