After a fun but busy day visting with family on Saturday, the Chickadee was uncharacteristically cranky all day on Sunday.  She was fussy, easily bored, and difficult to console.  The only time she was content was when we went mushroom foraging in some nearby woods (trees seem to fix everything for her).  Mr. B was especially disappointed because he was looking forward to being able to hang out and have fun with her all day.  She’s usually such a happy and content kid that it really throws us when she hits a cranky patch, just because it happens so rarely.

Early on Monday, she got her H1N1 vaccine and was extremely sleepy afterwards, taking 4+ hour long naps in the afternoons for the past three days.  Then, last night, she woke us up every hour and a half or so with grunts and vigorous leg-thumping (her latest “thing” is thumping her legs up and down, simultaneously, really really loudly.  It’s funny–especially in the bath–except when it happens in the middle of the night!).  She was also rolling around a lot and kept smashing various body parts into the sides of her crib (which is just one reason why we’re going to do a trial of a Montesssori-style floor bed for her when we move, at least until she’s walking).  She woke up a bit cranky-looking, and on a whim, I checked her gums with my fingertip…

…and there it was, sharp as a razor and tiny as can be–her very first tooth.