Last week I noticed a slight little bubble on Riley's lower gum. I knew this bubble well , since Tyler had the same thing before he broke his first tooth. I knew it was only a matter of time before that bubble transformed into a pearly white. The only thing I wasn't expecting was for it to come so soon. Tyler had his bubble about 2 months before he cut his first tooth.
Needless to say, while at the park on a play date last Friday morning, I was explaining to a friend how exhausted I was and how Riley has been waking at all hours of the night the last couple of weeks, seeming restless and so uncomfortable. I told her that I knew it had to be from teething, especially since I had noticed the bubble on her gum last week. Just as I said that, I reached my finger in her mouth to feel her little gum, only I didn't feel gum, I felt TOOTH!!!
This is the definition of bittersweet. While I am SO SO SO SO sad to say goodbye to my all-gums, ear to ear, infectious smile, I will be one happy Mommy when we are all getting good, solid sleep again. We still have some time before that day comes, since the neighboring tooth is right behind the first, but we'll get there. Aside from the drool and the broken sleep, you would never know that our little princess is teething, so I really don't have much to complain about. She's still her smiley, happy self all day long.
And so, we've reached yet another milestone so quickly, with the arrival of her first chomper. Many more to come! And so it goes...
