Show Them Your Smile

Time for their first dental visit! After working things out with that pesky ol' dental insurance who insisted they pay for pediatric dentists but alas there were none covered in all of St. Louis... so they said "take your pick and we'll cover it." Imagine that! An insurance company!
We were off.... a little hesitant... a lot nervous...



Nicolas and the nurse compare shoes. What good taste she has! Turns out she hunted all over for them just like we did for Nicolas. When a person wants red Nike's you won't settle with anything less!




Nicolas was a trouper. He did great. Let them scrape, polish and everything. Even tried to answer her questions when she was really talking to mom and dad and he had a mouth full of tools! What a cool guy he is!



Lexi watches... wary... playing with the reptiles. Does this window lead outside? Is it locked?
The nurse asked her if they could count her teeth like they were doing to Nicolas? They would love to do that and would even do it in Spanish like Dora if she wanted. She said "sure... maybe tomorrow." That got a laugh.

Uh Oh! Lexi's turn. A few extra tears on her part. Mommy was there holding her hand.... tight! But no kicking, no wiggling. She was a trooper too! And they both got to hit the treasure box on the way out. She liked having the fluoride "painted" on her teeth. Later told me she "looovvveedd it! It tastes like sugar." Funny what they have now days compared to when I went. Flavored gloves for the staff to wear when doing the exam. They get to pick the flavor of the fluoride coating even! They got Disney themed toothbrushes! Wow, we were lucky to get to pick between purple and blue.

Must not have been too traumatic or at least long lived... Lexi played dentist when she got home with her dolls. Even put that pretty bracelet on the dolls left wrist after the dolls exam was over. The one that she got from the treasure box and wouldn't take off. I do realize that it looks more like she is picking the dolls nose with big tweezers but kids move fast when taking pictures and she really was going for her imaginary teeth in her little string of a mouth!!!