Jake is 6 months old today. It’s been a week of events. On Tuesday his first bottom tooth poked through the gum. This explains Jake’s general bad mood during the preceding few days. This is what all that lip sucking was about!
On Thursday Jake came down with a cold. Every time he settled he coughed up mucus and woke himself up by choking. I spent the night in the room with him because Ames and I were concerned about the choking.
I brought in the kettle to create some steam in the room and Ames cleverly built up his mattress so that his head is now raised. The next day we bought some Karvol capsules, saline nose drops and some childrens Vaporub. One of those should help him breathe a little easier.
Jake has added a new consonant to his repository. There is now a babababababab to add to the gagagaga and the hahahaha, as well as the occasional mmmmmmmmm. 🙂