Michaels first Dentist Appt.

Above is the hwy into Corpus Christi. Michael had an appt. with a pediatric Dentist in Corpus on Thursday. I told him we were going to see a kids dentist and he was all for the idea. I found the office fairly easy and when we walked in they had a large lego table with an enormous amount of legos and Michael was in Heaven....When they finally called us back in the room he wouldn't get in the chair so I sat in it and he climbed up into my lap...As my friend Helen said it is a strange feeling sitting in the chair and not having my mouth looked at...But he did so much better than he did at my dentist last year when he wouldn't even come within 2 ft of the chair...He let the Hygienist look in his mouth...while we waited for the dentist to come I persuaded him to stay in the chair while I read books to him...I can not explain to ya'll how PROUD I was of him....He let the dentist look in his mouth...the dentist was poking and prodding and not a peep out of Michael...The synopsis is 5 cavities...I was given several options as to how we can go about filling these cavities...I chose the oral sedation and laughing gas for him, now hopefully all will go well. I was told to expect to spend at least half a day at the dentist office with him when we go back, ugh!! What irritated me was he is not to have any food or drink that morning...it's a 1 1/2 hour drive to the office and trying to tell my son he can't drink or eat in the morning isn't going to go over well...Our appt. is at 8am so hopefully I can just wake him up and pack him in the truck and go...He likes his audio books and maybe if I put one in on the ride over there he'll be okay...What is funny is on the way out of the dentist office Michael told me his teeth were all fixed and he wouldn't have to go back, ekkk!! I told him no that they just looked at his teeth and that we had to go back for them to fix them...he was none to happy with my reply and started arguing with me...So I have a month to convince him that he will be just fine and they won't hurt him....The dentist will not use Novocaine so there will be no shots. The cavities are surface cavities and shouldn't be hard to fill....

We left the dentist office and picked up some dinner and went to Aransas Wildlife Refuge to hunt down some Alligators and Michael was really excited about that....