On Saturday morning Simon had his 2nd Dentist appointment. We drove over and parked in the Jewel parking lot because it was both pouring rain and the street was blocked in front of the dentist because of a festival (otherwise we would have walked).
We walked in right at 8am, which was appointment time, and were immediately brought back into the back room. There were three ladies who came in during our visit: Dr Ashley, Gina the hygienist and Claudia who had an unknown job description but stayed with us the whole time while the other two went in and out. My guess is that she is in charge of keeping kids at ease (and restraint if that became necessary).
Claudia talked with Simon about how cool the chair was - it can turn into a bed! - which is the first thing he tells everyone about the dentist now. She showed him the TV on the ceiling and let him choose a show that she turned on. A result of the show being on was that he became essentially non-responsive for the duration unless you said his name a couple times, but that wasn't terrible. Dr Ashley counted his teeth (20 as expected) and mentioned that he could start brushing with fluoride toothpaste once a day.
Simon was totally awesome with the dentist checkup and the cleaning. So great he got a sticker and a token for a toy. The toy he chose was a bouncy ball. We have a strict no throwing in the house rule and most balls have been removed to avoid the temptation. Since he totally loved his new bouncy ball but I wasn't going to let him play outside (in the pouring rain) or in our house when we got to the stairwell down to parking at Jewel I told him to roll the ball down the steps. It bounced everywhere and was super funny. We proceeded to spend about 30 minutes in the stairwell, he laughed SO hard and was great about stopping as soon as someone came in and most importantly not going outside even if the ball rolled outside. I took a quick video.
