It's a TOOTH! Maybe...

Madeline has been pretty "drool-ey" for the past month or so. We thought she SURELY wasn't teething yet even though everything I've read says it can happen as early as 3 months and as late as 12 months. We never saw anything going on in her mouth that would lead us to think she was teething, so we decided she was just going to be "drool-ey" for a while.
After being on a pretty predictable schedule for 2-3 weeks (finally), she threw us a curve ball this past weekend and decided she would mix everything up on us. After sleeping until between 6:30-7:00 am every morning for quite a while, she's been waking up FUSSY at totally random times. Even as early at 3:00 am - YUCK! She usually wakes up happy and plays and talks to herself in her crib for a while, but not these past few days. She's been fussy and hungry. Feeding her at weird times has completely messed up her schedule. We've added rice cereal to another feeding around lunchtime which has helped the past two days, but she's also been cranky off and on - mostly in the afternoons - and very clingy. She just really wants to be held and cuddled. Needless to say, I haven't gotten much done this week!

We decided to really check her mouth out good on Sunday night, and sure enough, there's a little tooth starting to make it's way through her lower gums! She and her paci are suddenly very best friends! It really soothes her, along with some refrigerated teething toys. Hopefully her first tooth will make a full appearance soon, and she will be MUCH more comfortable.

*If any of you have ever tried to take a picture of a 4-month-old's gums, you'll know why I don't have a picture of "the tooth"