Bucket of Fuss

Kacen is getting his first four molars in! He has ear infections, again. A rash that makes me want to scream just looking at it and we are down to nursing once a day and wondering when that will be eliminated. Hence the phrase, bucket of fuss!
His maxillary first molars are here! The picture on the right indicates the baby mouth and highlights the molars he is getting. The bottom left molar is almost all the way broken through the upper left one is making itself known and the formation of the other two can be seen clearly through the gums.
Our children are well known for having ear infections. Abbi had them at least six times, four of those occasions were simultaneously. She had three different antibiotics and tubes being put into her ears were mentioned. Alona had them so much it was an ordinary occasion to go to the doctor for a normal check up and notice, oh she has an ear infection! Kacen and Abbi both had ear infections on their first birthday's. The first time that I took Alona in, I had noticed that she was just acting different, not herself, she was a little more whiney than normal for her. And she had an ear infection, no pulling at the ears, no screaming, none of the others symptoms associated with it. And so when the doctors after telling me that my child has an ear infection say come back if he doesn't seem to get better...I go in anyway, my children are not much off of "normal" when they have an ear infection.
Nursing, Kacen goes to bed without nursing. This is great, I can even get him to wake up without nursing. But either when he is just so ornery that he wants so badly to be comforted or he has waited long enough in his eyes(24 or so hours). He starts crawling up my leg and biting me or throwing himself backwards and screaming hysterically. This is a boy who does NOT take naps. He is happy unless you try to make him sleep...the one exception, car rides! This has changed so much, at one month old car rides were the thing that he despised the most and now it is MY saving grace!