Bulldog face- Penny has been pulling a bulldog face lately, a wide-eyed grimace with a strong, open-mouthed underbite. It's pretty hilarious. Sometimes she'll yell stuff while pulling that face, and other times she'll smile at you with the same underbite.
Dance police- Penny loves to dance, and we'll often put music on and dance around the living room with her. She loves it-- right up until she doesn't. When she's no longer in the mood to dance, she gets mad if other people dance. Of course, this means that Kevin will dance until she runs over and physically stops him. Then I'll start dancing, and she'll run over to stop me. Then Kevin will start again. We're pretty mean like that.
General moodiness- Penny's almost two. She knows what she wants, and when the answer is no, it is the end of the world. My parents won't stop dancing? Nooooo! I can't just drink juice all day? Noooooo! I have to sit on the potty before I get an M&M? Noooooooooo! My parents are the worst!!
Fingers in mouth- Here we're starting to figure out what's wrong.
Waking up crying in the middle of the night- We finally realized what all these symptoms added up to: teething!
Penny has gaps on her bottom jaw where her canine teeth will soon be, and they're red and ready to sprout some teeth. Poor little girl! I'm actually glad that she broke into a fever right before we left the US (and I had already packed her medicine on the slow-boat to China), because I had to go get some Tylenol for her. This means we have some on hand, and I was ready to give her some. Counting my blessings!
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I was trying to figure out why Joshua was waking up screaming in the middle of the night every night, and why he's been sticking his tongue out at me more often, and why he insists on skipping his evening nap...yup, he's teething, too!
Typical terible 2's! She's gonna just love a new sister :-)
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