Incey-dental

One of the people in the above photo now has 6 teeth - guess which one?? (perhaps get a grown-up to help).

If you picked "Jessica", you are correct. It's been a big week for her on the teeth front, with the top row of teeth anxious to join their cousins on the bottom row. You can't tell in this picture, so don't strain to look (it's at least a couple of weeks old anyway). You can look at Mel's teeth if you like - according to this photo she has 15! Lots of crying and restless nights this week - for Jessica especially - but it's amazing to see her developing so quickly. Still not crawling just yet, but she frantically scrambles while perched on her big belly. She can spin herself around very easily, and has the legs and arms all doing what they should be, but just hasn't managed to put all the pieces together quite yet. I think of it as her having the kickstand down on her little motorbike (with her big belly as the kickstand); the back wheel is spinning frantically, and as soon as that wheel makes contact with the ground, she'll be screaming around the house (and probably down the street if we don't catch her in time).

I will post something a little later - I have to go now to make sure my old suit still fits me! I haven't needed to wear a suit to work for a long while (it's not that sort of job, ordinarily), but tomorrow involves a meeting in the City for which I need to look semi-respectable. I think those semi-respectable days are long behind me, though, and I may need to resign myself to updating my wardrobe at Big & Mighty or Solway (trumpetted as "where the big men buy!"). Wish me luck.

Matt

(PS. the photo above may crop up in an unusual place in the very near future - will let you know if it happens as planned).

(PPS. I've added a link to Mat Kearney in the sidepanel: he's a great musician we 'discovered' in the last couple of weeks (think Chris Martin meets Jack Johnson, with a lot of extra stuff - including spoken word - thrown in). If it's your birthday in the next little while, expect to receive a copy of "Nothing Left To Lose" from me. That is, if I know you. If you've stumbled on this blog at random, and I don't know who you are, when your birthday is, or where to post the disc, it's unlikely I'll get around to buying you his album as a present. If you fit this description, you should probably buy it yourself...it's very much worth it).