the twinkle in my eye

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the twinkle has six or seven molars trying to break out all at once at the moment. her gums are all lumpy and she is miserable with pain a lot of the time. poor possum. this is how she looks a lot of the time at the moment:

in this shot she is wearing the gorgeous top that pcat and owl made for her. we’ve been avoiding dressing her in it because it is too good and we wanted to save it for special occasions. but we don’t have many of those so we decided to just make the most of it and start her wearing it before she grows out of it! unfortunately it was impossible to get a clear photo of it yesterday while she wasn’t screaming, so here’s an unclear photo:

when i finish here i am off to wash the teething drool out of it.

my parents are leaving to go overseas tomorrow so we went over to say goodbye to them yesterday. it was a little bit sad – i think they found it hard to say goodbye for two months. when they get back she’ll be walking and saying something other than “hello”. i wonder if she will miss them, or if they don’t really get the concept of missing people yet when they’re this little. i don’t know how that works – do you?

i heard this week that apparently they only work on one milestone at a time so while she’s teething with six or seven teeth she’s unlikely to reach another milestone like walking or more talking. so we’ll just have to focus on minimising the pain and distracting her from it and in a week or so she might be more ready to try the walking thang.

how cute is she?