A Dental Discovery

Both of the boys have had awful colds and double ear infections this week so there's not really much to blog about over here unless you want to hear about all my methods of forcing antibiotics down their throats and drops in their ears! :) We have mostly just been hanging home trying to get them better. Soo, I'll share Brayden's latest dental discovery, since I'm sure you are all dying to know! I finally took Brayden in for his first dental visit earlier this week. He was a little nervous about it and I honestly had a hard time telling him the dentist was fun because truly I hate and dread going to the dentist more than anything! I was a little nervous about it too because at this age, when there's a problem with the teeth its all on the mom! And I will admit that I have forgotten to sometimes water down the juice, or brush his teeth twice a day, and we do let him get sprite when we go out to eat. Oh and I guess he was supposed to go to the dentist a lot sooner. Apparently they see kids at 15 months to put flouride on their teeth! Ah, I never knew! I just always thought I would wait until he was older because what toddler is going to sit still in a dentist chair with their mouth open...BB never would have!

Anyways, I took him to a kids only dentist that my aunt had recommended and I must admit, it was great. I seriously wish I could go there! They had a big play area in the waiting room and when we went to the back they let Brayden pick a movie to watch and then put it on a little flat screen that they pulled down right above him as they cleaned his teeth. They let him try out all of the dental tools before they used them on him and he left with 4 stickers and a little dog, which he currently is playing with more than his christmas toys. I will admit, I had to gag when they offered him the choices of toothpaste and out of all of them he chose cookie dough! I don't even want to imagine what cookie dough toothpaste tastes like! Gross.

So after cleaning his teeth, they took him away to try and see if he would cooperate for some x-rays. When the hygenist brought him back, she was all excited and said the dentist had something really cool to tell me. Now cool is not really a word that I have ever heard a dentist use. I was pretty sure if Brayden had some cavities or something that they wouldn't refer to them as "cool" so I wasn't sure what they were going to say. The dentist walked in and told me that Brayden has an extra baby tooth on top which is why on his right side he has a tooth that is sticking out more then the others. I had always just thought he didn't have enough room in his mouth for all of his baby teeth so he would for sure be getting braces. I never even noticed he had an extra tooth up there...I think there was a time he was getting so many in at once that I just lost track. So we'll see if he has an extra permanent one too when those start to come in.

So, its not really a big deal, just kind of "cool" like the dentist said. Seriously all I could think about while she was going on and on (and on) about this is how sad that he had to push an extra tooth through his gums when he was little! Poor baby!!! Maybe its because Ty is teething SO bad right now and he is miserable! Haha, so that was our dental discovery this week. That and apparently I am a horrible mom for not flossing my childs teeth daily which is something I haven't even mastered for myself yet. I guess we need to make this a 2010 goal or something.

And here is a picture of Tyler real quick. He LOVES to climb into everything right now and its all fun and games until he trys to get out. I was taking some pictures of him in this red bucket that he had climbed into when it suddenly just tipped over. I thought he was going to start to scream but he just laid there with his little lip sticking out. It was so sad and yet so cute at the same time because it was like he was trying so hard to be tough!