First Illness, First Tooth

Simon has not been sleeping well recently. By recently, I sort of mean ever, but also mean that its gotten really bad the past few weeks. So, like any parent, we asked why...does he have a cold? is he teething? maybe its an ear infection?

Well, we finally have answers: yes, yes, and yes. This Sunday Simon had his first trip to the ER, because he was getting more and more miserable, and being a holiday weekend, the ER had to do. We learned that Simon has a sinus and ear infection, which probably began as a bad cold and spread from there. And today, Simon's first tooth broke through the gums. So it's been all three--cold, teething, and ear (and sinus) infection! Poor guy!

Despite all this, he's been relatively happy during the day, limiting his misery to night time.

We tried to get a photo of the first tooth, and weren't particularly successful. But, we thought you might be entertained by our attempts, which ranged from getting him to smile to holding his mouth open to catching him about to mouth a toy:

And finally, here's our best shot, where if you were to zoom in AND know exactly where to look, you could see his first tooth just peeking out!