Teething May Be Over; But Back on the Bottle

This round of teething may be over. The height of it seemed to be on Wednesday, when Ivan kept his hands in his mouth, seemed constantly in pain, and had serious trouble falling and staying a sleep. He'd wake up every 30 minutes or so and cry until he'd find his bottle.

I gave him so much cold milk to drink that night, since that was the only thing that soothed him, that in the morning his diaper was beyond soaked as were his pyjama pants and a onesie.

Yesterday he went to bed more easily and stayed asleep. The same thing this evening. It's 11:30 p.m. and not a peep from him since we put him to bed.

I think seven teeth came in. At least seven teeth that I could spy (four on the bottom and three on the top, including his first top molar.)

He's also been grinding his teeth today -- it was both visible and audible. Very funny. He's quite serious about it too.

The problem now is that all the gaines achieved in getting rid of the bottle have been reversed (how economist speak of me), and we're back to the bottle full time. Today, he kept wanting to do nothing else by drink milk. He's been walking with the bottle dangling from his mouth all afternoon. Maybe it's still the teeth, or maybe it's the bottle addiction back with a vengeance.

(He's learned to go to the refrigerator and point to the milk carton to give him milk. It's actually really cute. He's been doing this with other food items as well:
standing in front of the cupboard, yelling "kek" to get a cookie
going into the fridge to get blueberries "bulbul"
going to the fruitbowl to get a banana, or "nana" in Ivan-speak