The good and the bad and the teeth

The good - or actually super exciting: I am confident that Brianna officially started "socially" smiling today. Not just a gas smile, or a smile as she drifted off into dreamland. I mean smiling in direct response to me and my smiles/talking. She has done it 4 times already this morning. Talk about melting mommy's heart! I will try to get a picture to show off.

The bad: Poor Kaitlyn has been feeling under the weather. Sunday night we discovered a fever of 102.9. Monday morning it was still 101.6 or so, and Kaitlyn stayed home from daycare. I was a busy momma. It wasn't as crazy as I thought though - just hard to balance a sick toddler and a constantly-eating baby. Anyhow, Kaitlyn was not having much in the way of other symptoms and after checking her mouth, Andy is pretty sure she has new teeth coming in. I know many docs say that teething does not cause fever but I say BULL CRAP. Maybe not always...but it certainly can. Every time Kaitlyn has had these high fevers, there have been no other symptoms. Once (in the ER) she was even tested for all sorts of things but nothing came up. The ONLY common factor has been that each time, there were new teeth close to coming up.

Oh and speaking of teeth - I swear, I am not kidding...we think Brianna already has one partly through. It's hard to get a clear view, since it is a molar and her mouth is so small...but it is a definite hard, white spot where a tooth would be. I think it is hilarious that Kaitlyn has been a late teether (compared to average), and now Brianna might be early! Funny how things work!