Quiet Gardens, Raging Seas Part Deux
A String of Nevil Family MomentsArchive for Baby Stuff
Binkie Tosser
Today, I couldn’t for the life of me figure out where all Chase’s binkies had gone. I had 4 of them in the crib not too long ago….hhmmmmmm…where COULD they be?

And then the binkies were found....

They are even nicely spaced out....
This isn’t the first time we’ve lost binkies…the day Jeremy was deployed, Chase slyly tossed a binkie straight out of his stroller and I didn’t figure it out till they were both SCREAMING and we were on our way home.
You just can’t strap it to the kid ALL the time. I do however recall being greatly amused when the instructor for my birthing class told us all quite seriously that we CANNOT tape the binkie to the child’s mouth….
Oiy, the Crying….
Chase has been crying all. day. He is seriously happy for 30 minutes. Now, this might not sound unusual to you, but my nickname for him since he was born is “Mr. Happy Pants” because he’s that happy. Usually. But not today.
I looked in his mouth and there are two little things like teeth buds maybe? They haven’t broken through…there’s no white, but at the rate he’s going I’m telling myself it’s teeth just to make myself feel better. He drools on everything too. A lot.
Lately, he’s been doing this super sweet thing where he just leans in to me and lays his head on my chest…he kinda snuggles up under my chin, you know? It melts my heart. He screamed bloody murder tonight at bedtime so much so that I really thought something was wrong. He doesn’t usually cry at bedtime. I picked him up and he just took a deep breath and snuggled in. POOR BABY!
Also, he has been swatting my hand away any time I try to give him his binkie or when I try to explore his mouth. (Not that anyone else would let me do that to them either though…he he h he.)
So I don’t know. I’m tired though. I had a great chat on the phone with a friend; I did some pseudo-retail therapy at Wal-Mart too and that helped. Now, I think I just need to go to bed. Is it weird that I want to scoop up both my kids and have them snuggle with me tonight.