First Tooth!

Ethan's first tooth was out on 25 Sept 2010, exactly a week after marking his 6th month. He woke up early that day around 5am and I failed to get him to sleep back. When he started to make lots of noise on our bed, I decided to bring him downstairs to enable Han to sleep back.

Ethan played on his play mattress while I lied beside him. As usual, he got bored after a few minutes & tried to get my attention by pulling my hair, patting me, rubbing his face on my body. Out of sudden, he bit my thigh!! "Ouch! Why you bite mommy??!!" I felt that he was biting hard but it did not cross my mind that his first tooth has already poked out!

Later in the evening, he bit Han when we were back to Banting. He felt that his gum was "rough" and checked his gum & wala...we found out that there is a pearly white lower middle tooth!! No wonder he drooled a lot for the past few weeks & had cold symptoms since 2 weeks ago.

Ethan LOL

Ethan's happiness is our happiness.Nothing can describe our happiness & excitement whenever Ethan laughs happily. It's not easy to trigger him to laugh hysterically. We have to use a new trick which will make him excited, however any new trick would only work for 2 or 3 times the most.

Check out his laughing clip on the day he was down with cold.

Ethan's first cold

Ethan caught his first cold on Sunday. It's worrying in a way because Jee, Eric and Caryn came to Banting during this Hari Raya holidays and Eric unfortunately caught a case of the chicken pox. Though in a way it could be a good thing to expose Ethan to chicken pox early but still he's only a few days short of 6 months old, so it is a bit scary. Anyway, we just hope for the best and if Ethan was to catch chicken pox then let it be and we'll just pray to God that he'll not suffer to much and recover quickly. It's already Tuesday and 'fortunately' it wasn't so bad since his only symptoms are an occasional runny nose with a bit of coughing and sneezing. He developed a slight fever yesterday evening at the nannys but by the time we brought him back home his temperature has started to come down. So we let him sweat it a bit by not turning on the fan. It was a pretty hot day but it was already late evening so it wasn't that hot, just enough to get him sweating. By the time we put him to bed his temperature was back to normal.
Ethan's runny nose has also seemed to clear up by this morning, hopefully it's a sign that he's getting better.