Ouch

It's been a rough week around here... Daniel is working on cutting 3, yes 3 top teeth, all at the same time. Poor little dude came down with a fever during church on Sunday (our apologies to GCC and prayers that no one else catches anything). He had a considerable fever, with no other symptoms, aside from those swollen lumps where he'll soon have teeth- from Sunday all the way through Wednesday and finally on Thursday woke up fever free and we got to see his sweet smile again.

This little man smiles all the time. It makes me wonder if he's heard that the baby of the family is supposed to be the clown? Oh, wait. He has heard that. Nana was just telling him that on Thursday. Then, that very same evening he was making a noted effort to make Michael and Scott laugh at him during dinner. He succeeded. It was a funny trick with his eyes and blinking and that smile- you really had to see it and everyone knows that the camera is much too slow to catch such things.


At any rate, the frequency and the level of cuteness contained in this one little face has earned the nickname, "Smiley Baby." Ask anyone and they'll tell you it's true... the checker at Aldi, the librarian...
Ahhhhh that's better. To sooth the swollen gums, we gave him his first whole piece of watermelon to chew on. He's had it cut up plenty of times, but this was the first time we handed him his own slice. I think he liked it.