First toothlet

Whee! The Hungry Mouth seems to have cut her first tiny scrap of tooth, lower front! it looks short and sharp and greyish...we hope its appearance will shortly improve to longer and whiter.

Now the Hungry Mouth is eight and a half-ish months old, so this is indeed about when she should be growing tiny teeth, but we were convinced she was teething back when she was but a six-month-old...she did all the teethy things: dribbling, rosy cheeks, red bottom, unaccustomed yowls at night, constant chewiness. This went on for about three weeks, I think, and then it all stopped (except the chewing, which metamorphosed into more general mouth exploration - licking and chomping and such). And as you've already guessed, no tooth! Maybe her teeth were just getting on the move, sub-gum.

Or maybe, she wasn't teething at all. This very first toothlet has been accompanied by none of the above clues.

Mysterious little tot!