I think that descriptions of life are always more realistic, more honest, when contradictory emotions and experiences are all happening at the same time. This afternoon must have been a really real day :). After Eden woke up from her nap, the rest of the afternoon and night was full of "happy, happy, happy" and "oh my gosh, I can't scream any louder or arch my back any harder" (done by Eden, of course).
I of course could only snap photos during the "happy, happy" moments -- thank you goldfish crackers.
We're choosing to believe that her teething was really getting to her today. Part of the afternoon she would giggle and dance, then in the next moment, usually when something was removed before she was done with it (i.e., taking a dead leaf away from her so she couldn't eat it, removing the goldfish cracker bag so she didn't crush all of the goldfish instead of eating them, putting up the camera so she didnt' get any more slobber on it, etc.) she was immediately screaming her displeasure with a red face and tears. Oh, and the whole distract-her-with-something-else strategy didn't do much good today.
You know, if my mouth was hurting and something was providing me some distraction, I'd probably get a bit upset if someone took it away from me, too. Think I'm rationalizing too much :)?
Anyhow, by the time I was putting Eden in her pajamas with the lights low, her pacifier in her mouth, and her lovee in her arms, she was as calm as could be. When she looked up at me after her bottle with a little smile and reached her hand out to touch my face, I pretty much forgot all those screaming fits. Guess that's the way it's supposed to work.
-ashley
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