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( Photos andStella andTeething )

Another hand of the clock has ticked, which means Stella has lost yet another tooth. The other top front one, to be exact. At the pace she is going we are about ready to buy her a set of Billy-Bob teeth so she can chew her food. The last Tooth Fairy visit proved to be [...]

Gueth What!?

Stella has about 5 teeth at varying stages of looseness. This front one kind of twisted its way out; at one point it was practically at a 90 degree angle to the rest of her teeth. Likewise, the others are moving around in such a way as to create strange gaps and craters. Every time [...]

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The Maker of Mayhem

At his 15-month check-up, we found that the fluid behind Porter’s ear drums still hasn’t cleared out. This, coupled with the fact that he is still yelling at us in some unintelligible Eastern European dialect meant we were directed by the pediatrician to take him to an audiologist and ear-nose-throat specialist. After a string of [...]

Gerd, the newest member of our family.

( Illness andPorter andSleep andTeething )

Okay. So here’s how it shakes down. Porter is about this close to becoming a pharmacological poster child. I took him to the doctor this week due to a seemingly endless list of symptoms. A list that was punctuated with the item CRYING, LOTS AND LOTS OF CRYING (yes, all in caps). When the doctor [...]