Busy boy!

Skeezix is on a tear. Yesterday he attempted to stand alone twice (he can now stand at the dishwasher by using his belly to balance, which to his delight, leaves both hands free to grab whatever he can), crawled up the stairs (Mitz and Pops came by, Mitz was on the stairs, and Oliver crawled over to see her, then went up three stairs. Oy), and is cruising along the furniture now. He's quite proud of himself - with each new trick, he gives the most delighted, pleased with himself laugh. And I sprout more white hairs.

He also has a unique little issue. We've been waiting for his right canine to join his other three upper teeth, and thought for sure he'd get it this week. The other morning, his gum was immensely swollen in that area, and you could see white at the edge of the gum. Didn't check closely yesterday. Today, after his nap, I noticed something hanging off his gum. It looked like gum tissue, in the shape of a large skin tag, or like a small ulululululua (too lazy to Google the correct spelling) thing that hangs at the back of the throat. Freaked me out. Called his ped, who referred us to a pediatric dentist. Went to the dentist this afternoon - it's very uncommon, but it is something like a cyst that is caused by the gum swelling because of a tooth, but when the tooth recedes, the gum can get irritated and form this cyst type thing. The dentist has only seen that one other time in the front of the mouth - and that was with his own son. They do commonly happen with the 6 year molars. It's harmless, and should go down a bit as the irritation subsides. And once the tooth officially breaks, it should go away within a week or two. If it doesn't, it will need to be clipped off. Just the thought of that makes me want to vomit, so send good thoughts that it goes away on its own. Oh, and the thing bleeds a little bit at times too. Good times.

Oh yeah, I keep forgetting his other favorite trick. Our DVD player in the family room is a combo receiver, DVD, something else. It was a little wide for the shelf, so Jon took the doors off that area so it would fit. Oliver has enjoyed crawling up to it for ages now, and pressing buttons. Cute, right? Now he's learning which buttons do what. So if he fancies hearing a little mariachi music, he presses the button that turns it on, and the default is the FM station that plays mariachi. He knows what he's doing too - he presses it, stands up and starts dancing a little. If you turn it off, he just looks down, presses his button and gets his groove on again!