Snot Face

Sunday night was hell as you can see by my teething post, although it didn’t start that way. After eating some lunch, she played with her toys. I didn’t get all of her lunch off her face. Damnit. Then she stood around for a bit. She did a few push-ups (not really). When dinnertime came around, I let her have her own spoon which she promptly used to gag herself. I attempted to feed her sweet potatoes and rice cereal, but it looks as if I actually painted the baby with them. I think she would have received more nutritionally if I had just skipped her mouth and fed her ears. Afterwards she needed a bath.

At six thirty, I sent the darling to bed. I thought she went to sleep. At seven, it sounded like she was stirring. By seven fifteen, it was hard to ignore the “stirring”. I lost count of how many times I picked her up and rocked her to sleep, just to have her wake up again when I lay her in the crib. I even tried to put her in her swing because I learned in one of the many mom class things that I went to, that when it is teething time, laying her on her back can cause more pressure in the ears. That was a no-go! I’m sure it wasn’t a bellyache because I didn’t hear any tummy rumblings. When it was finally over there was no belching or fart before or after the calm. She merely screamed and cried for FIVE HOURS! I tried Baby Orajel, which I had praised in the past, but that did NOTHING. Tylenol didn’t do anything either. Both of those companies can KISS MY ASS!! *Except when I may need to administer Tylenol to reduce a fever, other than that, fucking useless! Here is what she looked like three hours into the crying serenade with two hours to go…

She did fine at daycare on Monday, though she took three long naps instead of two. I arrived there to pick her up just after her third nap. They were about to call me because she woke up with snot in one eye and they thought it might be pink eye. This morning she looked like this…

See that stuff in her eyes?…it’s snot. Not snot rubbed into the eyes, but sinuses so backed up snot is coming out the eyes! Kurt has been calling her the human petree dish. I call her Snot Face.