Messy boy

Why is it that babies feel the need to drool over everything in sight? I put a nice shiny new outfit on Emmett today thinking we'd dress him up and bring him for a walk around town with his Granny and show him (off to) the world.. Within 2 minutes, before I'd even had a chance to take a picture of how lovely he looked, he'd a big wet patch under his chin. So now its a lovely outfit marred by a bib. Sometimes I don't know why I bother putting nice clothes on the child at all.

Poor old baba's dry skin/eczema or however you spell it seems worse, too. When he was with the doc for a chesty cough, he said that I should continue putting aqueous cream on it, but it honestly seems worse since I started doing it on a regular basis. Maybe these things are best left well enough alone. It always seems that it flares up whenever I have to bring him to see members of the medical profession. Its crystal clear most of the time, but because I have to bring him for a checkup on Thursday, he looks like I never put anything on to help the guy out. Bah.

I think maybe it might all be related to teeth.. He's a bit like a bag of cats today, very difficult to settle. You have to bounce him continuously on your knee while keeping eye contact, shaking your head from side to side and singing "bouncy bouncy bouncy boo". Leave out any step and he cries the house down. Poor little guy. Maybe the walk will cheer him up!