Two by two

I read in a parenting/baby book that we can expect teeth to come in two at at time ever month to every other month. That concept brings to mind the phrase two by two, which in turn makes me think of that song, "the ants go marching two by two, hoo rah, hoo rah." Then as my brain keeps going with this idea, I think of evenly spaced out little soldiers marching along. So far Maeve's teeth have behavied nothing like this orderly little army.

As many of you know, Maeve had no teeth at all until she was 7 months old, than BAM...6 teeth all in the span of 1 month. It's like all those little soldiers were piled up behind a door somewhere and finally the door opened and they came spilling out. Fortunately for Maeve, all those teeth at once didn't bother her a bit (or at least we didn't think so). She took it all in stride, granted her shirts were soaked with saliva, but that had been going on since she was 2 months old. We didn't know any differently. Eventually that stopped once her teeth were in and for the first time in many months, Maeve wasn't always holding her own personal wet T-shirt contest. Since that explosion of teeth there havn't been any more. Until this week that is.

We have eye-spyed two upper molars coming in. Wasn't hard to figure out either once Maeve started drooling like a rabid dog again. Unfortunately this time around though, Maeve is feeling kinda crabby and under the weather. She's got a runny nose and real low grade fever on and off. She's just not as happy as she usually is. Sad to see. I'm hoping for her sake (and ours, I'll be honest) that she doesn't have another explosion of teeth. It might be nice to follow that two by two rule. Get two now, take break and work on two more a month or so form now. Guess those molars are serious business.

Send Maeve some love.