President's Day: 2017

Oh man, oh man! A three day weekend? Yes please!

To celebrate Pops' birthday, we took Pops to the zoo!

You were excited about the animals and the company, sure. But the big hit was the cotton candy. And the Cotton Candy was as good as y'all remembered it from last time.

Then...sushi!

The next day it was 'warm' enough outside so you guys chose to do a car wash!

Which then turned into something else entirely..

And then, in what seems to be our annual President's Day tradition, we went to the dentist!

The most exciting news is that x-rays show that you, Aidan, will be losing your first tooth soon! Your front, bottom, left tooth (which you can see on the right in the x-ray below has almost NO root left on your baby tooth!) You were so excited about your loose tooth, Aidan!

But, you're hanging on to those front top teeth for a while. 

And Julia, your x-rays show a lot of root still left in there, but you were SO psyched about seeing your adult teeth coming in that you spent the rest of the day telling anyone who would listen- mommy, the neighbors, our waiter, our bus-boy- that you have adult teeth coming in!

And- come on- the best part of the dentist is the free floss (which you requested, Julia, when they didn't put it in your bag) and the toys!

You couldn't wait to show Mimi and Pops your clean teeth too!

Add in a driving lesson, to boot, and you got yourself one heck of a President's Day Weekend!

Clean Teeth Time

Aidan, Julia, I had the pleasure of taking you to your Dentist Appointment the other day! Aidan, it was your second cleaning/appointment, and Julia, it was your first appointment ever!

You both did really, really well. It probably helped that they have little TVs above your chairs that you can watch while the dentist does her thing. But, even so, the gadgets, gizmos, and x-rays they have to take can be a little alarming- but you weren't alarmed at all! You were old dentist pros!

Aidan, you were so brave! And your teeth got a "GRADE A"! So you've done a great job brushing.

Here's a cool x-ray of your teeth- you can see your grown-up teeth coming up. But, even though you're 6 already, she says we won't be having any visits from the tooth fairy for at least one more year! So, we'll see. When do you think your first tooth will fall out? Before or after February 2017?

Julia, you had to hold super still at a crazy standy-uppy x-ray thingy, and you were so brave!

Here's a cool look at your teeth coming in too! You can see your molars about to pop up in the back and a whole mess of adult teeth already in your mouth ready to start pushing up in about 3 years!

Clean teeth- check!

Free toothbrush and floss- check!

Watch movies- check!

You guys rocked your dentist appointment! 

Let's celebrate with some CANDY!