Week Eight & Nine

Week Eight contained Jane's first trip to the dentist. We decided to try our local dentist whom Rich and I go to instead of jumping straight to a pediatric dentist. Jane did very well with her cleaning. She didn't really like the bright light shining in her eyes but she loved getting all the "bugs" off her pretty little teeth and she especially liked the little goodie bag she got at the end. It had a toothbrush, toothpaste, floss.... you know - boring things only a kid would find exciting. A month later she still treasures her undersized tube of paste and that one-time flosser she used 30 times.

 

Unfortunately, Jane has cavities on the "eating surface" of her back molars. Two to be exact, one on each side. She has super deep .... what are they called? Whatever the center of the tooth is called that is like a canyon in your tooth. She has super deep canyons where food gets shoved in there and you literally cannot get it out, even with extra good brushing. So, she would have to come in for a second visit to get those canyon cavities taken care of. That's where week nine comes in. 

WEEK NINE

This visit? Not so awesome. When Jane would get immunizations from the Pediatricians office she would call them "pinches." Without knowing this, our Dentist told her when she came back he would need to give her a little pinch in order to get the "cavity bugs" out. It was downhill from there. She talked about coming in and getting a pinch and seemed like it was going to be ok... but once we got in there and he pulled that needle out..... oh boy. She was having nothing to do with that. We tried three different times. Finally he gave up and referred us to a pediatric. That visit went a little better. Because there were no pinches. It was just another checkup where they counted teeth, took more x-rays ect. But Jane did get to watch a movie on the ceiling and she thought that was pretty awesome. She also got another little baggie of goodies. So now she has 2 extra toothbrushes, pastes and flossers (nevermind the flossers I bought that are the same... these are special and must be held sacred). The one thing I am grateful for that came out of this experience is that Jane has an overzealous desire to keep her teeth clean and get all the bugs out every night. Sometimes I get lazy and want to skip flossing her teeth but she won't have any of that. She loves to brush and floss.  But what she loves even more then taking care of her teeth, are her friends, and playgroup.
 

We have  6-8 kids who come to playgroup every Monday morning. I get to have it at my place once every 2 months. They learn about a letter, color or shape and they all love it. Ally loves when it is at our house because then she gets to join in. I am convinced Jane was meant to have multiple siblings. She thrives on noise and organized chaos caused by lots of children. And I actually like it quite a bit too.