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A couple of big things happened this weekend.

We got a baby gate installed that works pretty good. It's a Baby's R Us brand. Simple and easy and even cheaper than the others ones I've bought. Now that we have the gate up, we can safely let Jack walk around in the walker. Ellie likes to push him around too, so the baby gate was a must!

Jack is getting his THIRD tooth! They just keep sprouting. I don't remember Ellie's coming in so fast and close together. He now has 2 on the bottom and one coming in on top. He'll be eating steak before we know it. Now, if he would just start crawling instead of rolling around everywhere. We know he has strong legs, but I think he might be a little top heavy.

I tried to get a camera shot of his little biters. Isn't his nose cute?

Baby teeth

Sunday night was probably one of the worst nights I have ever had with one of the kids. Ellie and Jack are both sick. Ellie started getting sick on Saturday with a cold and has now transferred it over to Jack. She gets a cold about every other week and it's from daycare. It's really, really annoying, but I know this is just something that every kid goes through when they are in daycare or start school.

Anyhow... Jack has been drooling like crazy, and when I say crazy I mean a large amount of saliva that soaks through a bib in about 30 minutes. I put some baby teeth orajel on his sore little gums, hoping that might help a little. We went through the normal night time routine, play, bath, play, bottle, night-night. Then at about 10:30 he was crying in pain. I burped him and rocked a little... from then on he was up every hour, just really uncomfortable. A bottle didn't help, he threw up a couple of times and was in pain. The only thing that helped was if I held him over my shoulder. I pretty much lived in the rocking chair. I'm not really sure why I didn't think of giving him some tylenol (probably because I hate giving medicine). Last night was a little better. I gave him some tylenol and he only woke up at midnight. I wish those little teeth would just pop through! Here are some pictures of baby Jack. BTW - he is now 5 months old!!