For some reason, Cooper is really, really upset about his final front tooth. He is having trouble sleeping, he cried and screamed for about 2 hours yesterday evening, and another 3 hours in the middle of the night last night, and he is biting everything in sight. It might be that his other top tooth is what is causing the trouble, but it has emerged out so I'm not sure. I think it is the still-to-emerge fourth tooth.
Recently I've been dosing him with baby ibuprofen and that does help. I resorted to giving him drugs after he bit me so hard that he actually drew blood, and made us both yelp. That was very unpleasant.
The good thing is that I'm 99.9% sure it is his teeth, and not another more serious problem. When he is happily eating, chewing on something, or otherwise distracted he is his usual chatty happy funny self. But when he isn't distracted and he gets tired or otherwise on edge, he falls apart into misery. Poor little thing. It got so bad last night that I sent Matt downstairs to sleep on the futon so that one of us would get some sleep. No need to torture all three of us.
On a related note, we are dog sitting this sweet dog named Marley and he is very upset about Cooper's situation. Every time Cooper starts to get loud, Marley goes and sits on the couch (which is not OK, but you can't really blame him) and pouts. Poor Marley spent all last night with sad dog eyes, staring off into space, on the couch. Lucky is also unhappy but shows it differently- he tries to make Cooper feel better by licking his toes.
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