Toofers, rolling "D"s, and a complex sense of humor...

As you can plainly see from the above pic, Kate has some chompers now. She's actually had the bottom two since Christmas and now has one on top as well. Several more have been showing themselves... and in the words of Jim Morrison, they are about ready to "break on through to the other side" (I'm 98% sure that that was what Jim was talking about in that song). Because of these new, little, pointy, sharp additions, Chesney now is slightly fearful of feeding time. It makes my nipples retreat in terror just thinking about it...

(By the way, I'm currently all mellowed out on pain medication due to an ear infection and, thus, am not responsible for what I write in this post)

In other non-nipple news (pretty sweet alliteration there), Kate has developed a highly unusual noise/sound/chirpy thing. Basically, she's figured out how to roll her "R"s. Except that they sound more like "D"s... I'm not sure if there is such a thing as rolling your "D"s, but if so, Kate has mastered it! It's a noise she makes pretty much all of the time and sounds not too unlike the noises the Velociraptors made in "Jurassic Park". It can be somewhat scary at night when you here that noise emanating from her room.
If it were spelled, it would look like this - DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.
I tell Chesney that Kate is just saying "Dad" over and over again really, really quickly.

And, finally, we're finding that Kate is starting to develop a pretty bizarre sense of humor. She finds the dogs wrestling on the floor hysterical. Sometimes, the act of us carrying her up a flight of stairs is the highest form of comedy. Dancing with her around the living room sends her in to fits of laughter. And, just recently, wearing her toys on our body somewhere (hanging a set of rings off of your ear, sitting a funnel on top of your head) is akin to attacking her most tickilish spot. The little girl is crazy. And, I hope that she doesn't change with how she continually smiles and laughs at the world.

Working through the ickyness...

(This picture - other than being of Kate - has nothing to do with this blog entry)

Ahhh... look at the area around Kate's nose and mouth.  All clear of mucus, snot, icky mess stuff - those were the times!  I remember them fondly.  No gooey, sticky substance stuck to your shoulder all the time after Kate has repeatedly wiped her nose on you.  No snot bubbles popping against her face.  No hacking and coughing at 3:00am.  I never realized how good we had had it!  

It's actually been quite pitiful, the poor girl.  She was running a 103.1 degree temperature on Monday, which - thankfully - has abated.  She now just has the left over congestion, which seems to have decided to set up permanent residence (the moving van just left and they've invited the neighbors over for a BBQ).  Because of her being sick, no one is sleeping well in our household at the moment.  On top of that, the city is currently repaving the streets.  And, when you happen to live downtown, the most convenient time to do that is late at night.  Thus, we have had large truck/machinery/noise making devices right outside our bedroom window the past couple of nights.

To give you an idea how loud it has been... last night, at a break in all of the ruckus, we finally realized that Kate was crying.  The road crew is louder than a crying baby!  Thankfully, they only make noise from about 10:30pm to around 5:30am.  So, we have plenty of time to get some sleep from around 9:00-10:30pm and 5:30-6:00am.