Karston was chewing on his foot today. A baby with his foot in his mouth isn't surprising (quick check on flickr, this especially), so I didn't pay much attention because he looked pretty happy. By this afternoon, he had gnawed a hole in his romper! I tickled his feet while changing his diaper, and noticed that I didn't feel foot on the side with a new hole bitten in the romper! (I can attest, those teeth are sharp!) Turns out there was a clean diaper wipe in the bottom! At first I thought it was a dryer sheet, but it had a cute imprint like a diaper wipe. So Karston was chewing his clothes off to get the diaper wipe out! Whoops. We have no idea how or when that got in there.
Karston hasn't eaten well for a week. He didn't eat well last Thursday, but it's been really bad since Friday. He said no to spoon all week! This kid used to love eating whatever Daddy presented on a spoon. I guess that means he wants to start feeding himself finger food, but he doesn't know what to do with most of the AlphaBits we give him. However, this evening he gnawed off a piece of bread! Most of the bread he shredded into tiny crumbs, but one corner went in his mouth, bite, twist, mash, swallow. I really hope he's got the hang of it because I want him to eat and thrive. Plus his only serious nutrition right now is from nursing, and I did mention those new teeth are sharp. I'm glad he's still breastfeeding, so I know he's getting something good in his stomach, but I'll be happy when he's eating in his high chair again too.
Of course, if Karston isn't eating well, he's hungry. And if he's hungry, and his only calories come from nursing, he's waking up a lot at night. So we're pretty tired after a week of this. And I suppose that's how Karston got a clean diaper wipe down in the foot of his romper that he tried to chew out.
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