Cuspid Eruptus?

Monday morning I felt a tooth in Tara's mouth. I even saw it - a little point of white. Except, it was a cuspid not one of the front teeth! I searched all over the 'net for any references to a cuspid being the primary tooth erupted in a baby. It doesn't appear to be possible since these come in at about 18-20 months not four and a half.

Yesterday (Tuesday), we went to Niagara-on-the-Lake and I didn't get an opportunity to examine her mouth again. It's difficult to see the little bit of tooth anyway plus she slept for quite a few hours today so I can't confirm whether the tooth is really a tooth or something else.

The other strange thing is that instead of coming out of the top of her gums it's coming out of the side. It's possible though that it's one of the points of the cuspid. Not being an expert in baby teething matters, I'm unable to proclaim anything (though I'd really like to make a proclamation that my baby has erupted a cuspid!!) I tried to take some pictures of the tooth for posterity but couldn't get any clear shots inside her mouth. The pictures are super cute though, and I'll post them up later on (and not the cute that only a mother could love either, an actual certifiable cute)

On a side note, she EC'd at Niagara-on-the-Lake in the park (tee hee hee). It was a tiny little bit of poop and a lot of pee. Really less poop than a squirrel might make!! I took a page out of Igby's book (Enter Igby stage left into my blog) and kicked dirt all over it to cover it up. Igby is our almost four year old Parson Russell Terrier.

What can I say about pooping in the park except that she's just learned so well to poop outside her diapee that as soon as I gave her a tiny opportunity she went for it. I wasn't going to hold her in the EC position for a long time and wait as I might at home, she acted very quickly. She's such a little smartie pants! I have pictures of the whole thing but I'm feeling shy about introducing myself just yet... so we'll hold off on this for a bit.

Twice in a week

Today again we went to East Side Mario's. We gorged (there are no kinder words for our behaviour) on bread and salad before our main courses arrived so of course practically the entire main dishes were packed up. When we went on Monday I had penne with sausage and peppers today I ordered Angel Hair with Grilled Shrimp. I ended up eating instead the Chicken Marsala that the husband ordered because he didn't like it at all and I'm partial to it.

Onto the subject of my blog: Tara has been waking every hour for the past two nights. I feel like I've got a newborn all over again, except bigger and louder. I grin and bear it, I hope her little "toof" erupts soon and then she sleeps for the four or five hour stretches that I'm used to. We saw a baby over the weekend whose face was all red and rashy from her drool. I'm very good at wiping her face so she doesn't develop a rash. She had it for one day before I figured out what was causing and put a stop to it. I'm constantly wiping around her mouth, or if she's on her tummy I move her from spot to spot so if she puts her head down it won't be in the drool.

In the meantime she's becoming cuter and cuter by the day. Wow! Infants are amazing - we never change or grow or accomplish as much in our lives I think, as we do in these first few years. Makes me so glad that we are able to give her a stable and happy environment. I wish my "babyhood" had been as happy, I wonder how different my personality would be today. She's such a relaxed and happy baby, always cooing and talking and smiling and all this at only 4 months and a bit. I cry when I think how fast she's growing.

While Tara was sleeping

Since Tara spends a fair bit of time sleeping, this year I started helping my mom look after her garden, I should call it a vegetable patch really. She grows things every summer and I never really paid any attention to it. want to spell it tomatoes, which I'm sure is incorrect, isn't it?), cherry tomatos (or cherry tomatoes), green peppers, chilies, banana peppers, red onions, yellow onions, eggplant (two different varieties of course) and two different varieties of melons. She's also got spinach only the one kind and I'm growing some beautiful basil for my recipes but mostly to make pesto.

Would you basil is quite expensive in the 'burbs, even though I can buy big bunches in downtown Toronto for about a buck? To make one hit of pesto in Mississauga would cost me about $12-15 whereas in Toronto it would cost only $3-4. Now that I've got my own supply of basil I'll be making pesto for less than Toronto prices. Used to be that the patch produced vegetables, my mother got pretty excited over them, I ate the veggies and that was really the end of it. However, I can see the value in this gardening business now.

This is my flowering basil:

This is one of the long eggplant:

Various peppers:

Some tomatoes and an eggplant in the background:

And finally the mysterious melon, I have yet to figure out what this will turn into. :)