{"id":61,"date":"2006-11-28T12:58:30","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T18:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/all-i-want-for-christmas\/"},"modified":"2007-02-26T12:39:04","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T18:39:04","slug":"all-i-want-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/all-i-want-for-christmas","title":{"rendered":"All I Want for Christmas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"069030517-28112006\"><font face=\"Arial\">Titus has been a little  drool factory for the past two months, slobbering all over everything south of  his mouth.  We&#8217;ve had a number of people state that they were sure he was  teething, but we had resolved to wait until we actually saw a  tooth.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"069030517-28112006\"><font face=\"Arial\">On Friday (Nov 24th), Titus  was chewing on my finger when I felt a bit of a sharp prick.  I tried to  actively find the tooth, but couldn&#8217;t.  The next day, Titus was chewing on  his Auntie Beth&#8217;s finger when she exclaimed that she felt a tooth!  Sure enough,  there was a bit of white showing through his gums, right about where his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waybuilder.net\/sweethaven\/MedTech\/Dental\/Dental01\/Dental01_v1.asp?file=0205\">Right  Mandibular Central<\/a> should be (right front tooth on the  bottom)!<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"069030517-28112006\"><font face=\"Arial\">Of course, with all the  happiness that ensued, we forgot that teething is an annoying if not painful  process<span class=\"607333617-28112006\"> to the one being toothed<\/span>, and  Titus proceeded to stay up the whole night in fitful sleep.  The next day, we  hit the local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/\">Walmart<\/a><\/font><\/span> <span class=\"069030517-28112006\"><font face=\"Arial\">and grabbed some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orajel.com\/products\/baby\/teething.htm\">Baby  Orajel<\/a>.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"069030517-28112006\"><font face=\"Arial\">Let me tell you about this  Orajel stuff&#8230;I like to try the <span class=\"607333617-28112006\">things  <\/span>we&#8217;re using on Titus (vitamins, rice cereal, sweet potatoes, Orajel,  etc.) if possible, and this was no exception.  I slathered some of the stuff  between my bottom lip and gums and waited for the effects of the bubble-gum  flavored <span class=\"607333617-28112006\">goo<\/span>.  Thinking that the <span class=\"607333617-28112006\">results <\/span>would be baby-sized on an adult, I was  surprised when my whole mouth turned warm and started to tingle.  A few seconds  later I started to loose feeling&#8230;not just on the spot where I deposited the  Orajel, but all over my mouth, including my tong<span class=\"607333617-28112006\">u<\/span>e!  Fortunately, this wasn&#8217;t a Novocain-like  numbness, so I didn&#8217;t start drooling all over the place, but it sure did  surprise me with it&#8217;s potency!<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"069030517-28112006\"><font face=\"Arial\">After all that, we still  used the stuff on the little guy, and it seems that Titus is able to sleep  because of it.  That means more rest for us all, and a much more pleasant time  when we&#8217;re awake!<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"069030517-28112006\"><font face=\"Arial\">Chock this one up to being  careful what you wish for&#8211;I never knew a first tooth could turn into so much  work!<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Titus has been a little drool factory for the past two months, slobbering all over everything south of his mouth. We&#8217;ve had a number of people state that they were sure he was teething, but we had resolved to wait &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/all-i-want-for-christmas\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-titus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}