This week has been all about teeth in the Dennison household. On Monday, Finley's first tooth broke through, and today he is cutting his second tooth! As you can imagine, the amount of drool has been unbelievable. (I'm sitting here typing in a slicker and galoshes.) Finley has been chewing on everything in sight with renewed vigor. We feel very grateful, however, that he hasn't been terribly fussy or had significant trouble sleeping. Definitely a bit more temperamental than he normally is, but manageable. I have to say, though, I've been surprised at how slowly his teeth are coming in. At this rate, it could easily be a few more weeks before he's sporting two full teeth.
We had quite the adventure yesterday. We were out for almost 5 hours, which is a lot with a 5-mo-old! You have to be quite strategic in order to still maintain sleeping and eating schedules. We went to Kowloon to (FINALLY!) drop off Nate's guitar to have some work done to it. We also shopped around a bit for some baby items and went to lunch at Rice Paper, a Vietnamese restaurant. Finley even had his first ride on the Star Ferry. We should have brought the camera, but somehow forgot amidst traveling with a very full diaper bag, a baby, a guitar etc. These few photos taken with Nate's phone will have to suffice.
The first two are of our fancy drinks at the restaurant. We thought we would get crazy and try something new, so I ordered a violet lime soda, and Nate ordered a preserved lemon soda. (Preserved lemons are pickled lemons which are left to ferment in their brine for months.) When Nate ordered it, both the waiter and I were like, "Are you sure?" I'm pretty confident he didn't know what he was getting himself into. My drink was lovely and tasted great, complete with orchid to garnish. Nate's, on the other hand, was pretty gross. It was salty and made me want to gag. Somehow, he managed to drink over half of it.
Now that Finley can sit up on his own, we thought we'd try out a high chair in the restaurant. It's getting difficult to hold him and eat because he tries to reach for all the food/silverware/etc. Of course, eventually Finley bent over and tried to chew on the chair, which we had to stop since it was not particularly clean.
