Monday, February 9, 2009

Eri's first trip to the dentist

First off, Happy 2009!

So, now that Erin has turned three, she gets to experience the joys of going to the dentist.  Emily suggested I take them both at the same time, which was a revelation to me because I wouldn't have thought of that myself.  The appointment was on Monday February 2, 2009.  We are lucky in that a. our dentist is just one block away, and 2. our dentist is the wonderful doctor Vivian Lopez, DDS, who specializes in pediatric dentistry.  Oh and c. she has a couple of great technicians/hygenists who really work hard to relate to the kids and put them at ease.


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Erin got to watch Katie go through the whole routine first, which in her case really seemed to help.  There was one point when it was Erin's turn to get into the chair so that Tanya, the dental technician, could check her teeth and polish them that a flicker of fear went over her face--but it passed quickly as I put her in the chair, and Katie jumped on to go for Erin's inaugural ride up and down in the chair (3 times since she is 3).

Going to the dentist, in the end, was more like going to a party, with all the presents and balloons they got at the end.  In fact on the walk back home we passed a man who said "it looks like you just came from a birthday party" which of course seemed strange since it was 11 AM on a monday morning.  "No, dentist", I said.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, big girls! Our pictures of Amara at the dentist doesn't look anything like yours! No smiles! No Happy face! And our pediatric dentist doesn't seem as nice as yours! He told Eric that if Amara didn't stop screaming, he was going to kick him out of the room. And of course Eric said "you do that, we leave." Nevertheless Amara ended up going to a nicer dentist in Bakersfield to get her work done. Katie is such a great big sister!

Anonymous said...

more stories please!