All I Want for Christmas

We've been playing the elusive game of who cried wolf for about 8 months now. Any time that my son was ridiculous fussy, we attempted to chalk it up to teething and after some nights, I fully expected him to have all 26 choppers.  Never was the case, he was fussy for who knows what reason!  So within the past week he has been waking up at least once a night, clung to me like a leech, and has basically got me calling a chiropractor for some lower back pain.  I thought we were entering into the separation anxiety phase (which I also believe to be true) of life so I just sucked it up and let him act like he was a newborn child again.  Lo and behold, I am laying him down for a diaper change and I see a flash of white on his upper gum.  Was that the pasta from lunch 3 hours ago? Gross!  Nope, upon further inspection we officially have a tooth! Now it is not what I expected, first it is on the very top of his mouth, as I thought they got them on the bottom first, but when has this child followed any rules?  I also figured that teeth just come straight out of the bottom of a top gum (confused yet?) yet they come out of the side or head on if you are looking at it directly.  Well, I never thought to look there!  I am going to miss that gummy smile terribly but I am stoked that I finally know what teething is like and I have to say that making that child wear his 'corn' teething necklace may have paid off.