Baby Jaws!

As of Friday, we have a biter on our hands! Ugh!! What to do?! I was hoping it was a fluke when Riley bit Ethan Friday night. Gigi and my Grandmother came to town to babysit Riley so I could have a birthday celebration. So my Mom offered to watch Ethan too so Josh & Nancy could join us for dinner. Gigi said Riley was so excited when Ethan got here....too excited maybe because within a couple of minutes - Riley pulled up on Ethan and gave him a love bite! The worst kind too - the one where you just catch a little skin - so he had a bruise the size of a pea. Gigi said Riley was crawling around after Ethan so excited and wanting to play more, but Ethan was holding his shoulder running from him!

I called to talk to Ethan and he was very upset! It made me sad!! Luckily, it was close to Riley's bedtime so once my Mom took Riley upstairs - Ethan settled down and played flash cards with my Grandmother. I called to check on him at that time, and Ethan said - Baby Riley bit me! Can I talk to Uncle Kelly? Uncle Kelly is the BEST! Ethan LOVES him! It's so sweet! When Josh & Nancy picked Ethan up that night, it was the first thing he said to them when he woke up as Josh picked him up! And when we saw Ethan at church this am, it was the 1st thing he said too! Hopefully he's not scarred for life! Nancy and Josh were so cool about it too! I'm so thankful for that! But what am I going to do?!

Then today when we dropped Riley off in the nursery at church, we warned them he had bitten a friend for the 1st time a couple of days ago. So...as Kelly and I are walking to get him - Kelly made a BAD joke that we would walk around the corner and all the kids would be crying and running from Riley. Well...it was ALMOST that bad! Two of the 3 teachers were holding little boys and rubbing their arms as they were crying! Riley had bitten them BOTH in the last 3 minutes!!! Then we look farther into the room and there's Riley laughing and clapping and screaming for joy like he's just had the best hour of his life! UGH!!!

He has been teething REALLY bad this week. We had an all nighter on Wed where he was up with his teeth from 12-3am, but still! Luckily the Mom's there were understanding too! I just have no idea what to do! I'm not sure what prompted it this am, but I'm HOPING it's just that his teeth have been bothering him quite a bit this week. Stay tuned as I try to figure out what to do about this 'stage'!