Kian The Great!

Kian has always been a little slower to develop than his two siblings for some reason or another.

It's not that there is anything to be done about it, really. It's all just part of being a preemie and a member of a group of triplets.

He was born weighing the exact same as his brother, however instead of the little doll body that Kaiden came into the world with, Kian rather had a "Jack Skellington" physique.

He only started growing outward when he was about a month old. It was funny, really.

The nurses joked about how he waited until he knew that he was going home to start growing for me.

I thought that he would never figure out how to sit up on his own, and really he couldn't sit from a laying position until he was about a year old.

The physical therapist checked everyone over when they were six months old, just to make sure everyone was doing as they should be.

They all swore that the muscles were there, and that he could use them, if only he had the will to do so.

He just was a different sort of guy, that's all! Instead of sitting up, or attempting to crawl, he would rather roll onto his belly, arch his back, and put his arms out to his side and rock back and forth like an airplane, making buzzy noises.

Eventually, he finally did crawl. He did so more out of the necessity to catch his brother than anythying.

Kaiden tortured him relentlessly. He would cruise around the play-yard gate and crawl really super fast around Kian in circles, almost daring him to do something.

Kian was a whole eighteen months before he finally decided that it was okay to walk, too.

But at least he wasn't the last to learn to walk, as he had been with sitting and crawling!

This brings me to his latest accomplishment. Kian actually made it all the way to 21 months having only 8 teeth in his little boy head.

I was really starting to worry, too. Everybody else had a head full of teeth.

In fact, Kaiden has so many teeth that I don't think he really has any more room for new teeth in there (just call him "Jaws!")

This didn't bother Kian at all. Having only 8 teeth doesn't mean that you can't share your dental imprints with others just as well as someone with a head full can!

It just means that you get caught MORE than your siblings because your imprints are more sparse than the usual sets that I find!

Well, he finally did it. In fact, I suspect that he might have actually asked Santa for his molars this Christmas when nobody was looking.

Last week, he managed to cut no less than five new teeth, three of which are MOLARS!!!

Don't worry, they aren't all completely in all of the way just yet. Two of the new teeth are the sharp, pointy kind that are super painful and slow in coming in completely.

The worst part about it, is that after those pesky teeth finish poking through the gum, the rest only gets bigger and bigger and it appears to hurt more and more as it breaks through fully.

Kaiden and Vivienne gave us all sorts of sleepless nights for about three months trying to get theirs in.

Thankfully, Kian seems to sleep somewhat better knowing that he is getting new teeth and more of them!

He has only kept us up about three days with his latest endeavors. Poor little guy, he does try to keep in a good mood over it all, though!

It's really hard to get frustrated with someone who is always smiling at you and giving you hugs and kissies.

Well, then there is the time he decided to try and steal my pillow...but that was only once, and he gave it back when he decided that my knee made a much better one than the real thing.

I knew that teething was going to be interesting this time around, but I never realized that it would be this different.

Who knew that anyone could manage to cut so many teeth all at the same time successfully? I suppose that's why we call him, "Kian, the great!"