The Dentist!!!

I have heard various ages when to take YOUR children to the dentist. I've also heard that visits don't need to be every 6 months, once yearly is fine.....so with various information going about I didn't know exactly when to go. AND my Husband has a fear of teeth...don't ask me why...but if anything happens with the kids, concerning their MOUTH and TEETH...he is WHITE!! So...I am in charge of the mouths in this family! I have always made my kids brush their teeth....and they would show me after...and I would reply "ohhh so WHITE!!" There was never any issues with their teeth! It also took awhile to get an appointment settled...my Hubby works long hours....and we don't have a second car...so I had to go around his schedule to get an appointment and make sure he was going to be off. Monday night it was!!

The kids were nervous. I was nervous for Katie...she is the shyest of them all...and hates NOISES...like the little cleaner that scrubs your teeth pearly white! But as soon as we got inside...they were excited...there was a TV and a video game set up in another corner. Josh went and played Super Mario and Katie sat beside him, watching. After filling out tons of paperwork(ugh)....the receptionist started the BIG TV....Toy Story 3 came on the screen. Katie yelped in JOY!! First up was Katie....and she was cool!! She got to wear sunglasses as the hygienist cleaned her teeth....also in front of Katie was another BIG SCREEN TV....and the movie Rio started!! She was in her own world and didn't care about anything else...scrapers, cleaners, sucking tubes...nothing!!! 

Josh was next....and he too was in his own world. He even told the lady "I like this...I haven't seen Rio yet!" The only problem with Josh's teeth....he needs to BRUSH more! As the hygienist showed him..."you have Sugar Bugs...see...you have to make sure to brush them off!!" Katie's teeth were fine. But both kids have NO CAVITIES.  They also got Goodie Bags afterwards.....tooth brush, tooth paste, kids floss, a toy from the toy chest and an hour glass(the idea behind that is that they have to keep brushing...till all the sand is empty! I just had to remind them that the WATER doesn't run that LONG!!) Katie asked, after she was finished..." I like this place, I'm not scared...can we come back tomorrow?"

NOW as a child.....I didn't have any of these luxuries.....there were OLD magazines and kids books in the waiting room....and awful music playing from a corner in the office. I never had movies while sitting in the chair to amuse me. I would be lying there, while she scraped my teeth and would ask me questions...questions that had long answers not just "huh huh...nuh nuh..." cause we couldn't answer her with her hands in our mouths...but somehow they understood what we said. I kinda wish that I was child again...a child to have these luxuries in the dentist's office!