Teeth!?

I was letting Ethan chew on my hand yesterday and felt something hard. I thought he had a piece of plastic in his mouth or something from a toy he had been chewing on...or possibly, but thought NOWAY, a tooth. Well, I put my finger in there and fished around his bottom gums and low and behold there is was: a razor sharp, hard, forcing its way out of his gums tooth! I looked in and saw it in all its glory, along with #2 right beside it racing to get out first. WHAT?! My darling is only 4 months (well, almost 5 month) old! Is this possible? P didn't get her first tooth until she was 9 months old. She was mastering all her brain skills first and the physical development came later...which, I suspect, will be the opposite with Ethan.

I should have known because he started biting me when he nursed a few weeks ago and has been drooling and putting things in his mouth constantly. But, from what I read, babies aren't necessarily teething when they begin doing all of those things...it is merely developmental. I thought the constant jamming of fists and fingers into his pie hole meant he was learning to sooth himself. I figured no paci = fingers or fist or blanket or whatever was around that was safe and could be chewed on and drooled on to death. Well, I was wrong. And, I was wrong to assume that he would do things similarly to how P did things. Wrong, Wrong, wring my neck for thinking so.

Ethan is his own unique baby self that will do what he is ready to do when he is ready to do it. I need to remember he is not the same baby P was...we were smacked in the face with that when he was born with a penis and a full head of dark brown hair. I like to call he and P my yin and yang babies. Figuring out which child is the yin and which child is the yang will take some time, but I have my suspicions.