Enssle Family

The teething fairy

September 8th, 2006

The teething fairy has been to visit us! We don’t like her. We wish she would do her thing without causing Anna pain. Yes, Anna is teething and it is not fun for anyone involved. She has one tooth that has broken through the skin and another that is close. She’s pretty fussy and generally not her happy-go-lucky self lately. And the nights have been especially fun. She is either in pain or is testing us because she will not go down for bed without a serious fight. This often involves anywhere from 1/2 to 2 hours of screaming (I gave up after 2 hours and took her downstairs with me - it might have lasted longer if I hadn’t. ). Anna is ahead in the on-going Anna vs. Parents match-up.

In other news, Anna has moved up to eating cereal twice a day now: rice and oatmeal. Very exciting. She loves to eat. She reminds me of a baby bird when we are feeding her: mouth wide open and making noise! Next week she will be 6 months old and we plan to start her on some vegetables. Cereal is pretty easy to clean up…I can’t imagine peas and other veggies will be! We’ll make sure to document the event with pictures.

Yesterday Anna, Henry, Jo and I went to the zoo. It was Anna’s first trip to the zoo and she could have cared less. Both the kids were more interested in all the people and other babies than they were in the animals. Anna found a strap on her stroller the most exciting thing of all! Jo and I enjoyed getting out for the day. It was kind of a proof of concept: we can take the two kidlets out for the day without much trouble.

So Anna would really like to type something here, so I’d better close. Here are her parting words: hn .u mn h v tbn jhiy;l\]’
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