Teeth, Slide, and Potty Time..Oh my!

What a day!

Today Chloe had her first Dentist visit. I admit, I thought it was going to be a horrible experience.

But it actually went rather smoothly. It only took probably a total of five minutes. The dentist came in, immediately cleaned her teeth, painted a vitamin on, and we were on our way. Chloe sat in my lap and leaned back onto the dentist's lap. I'm pretty sure that the only reason she didn't scream her head off was that she was too terrified. She was just doing whatever we told her to do...

At any rate, the dentist seems to think that there is a great possibility that she'll need braces when she's older. His reasoning was that there is no spacing between her teeth, which could cause them to seperate as the adult teeth grow in. We'll see...I hope not. I certainly thing it's a bit premature to even be putting that in my head! Anyway, other than that, her teeth were great! Yay!

One thing that bothered me was that they said that after this visit, we would no longer be able to go back with her. What!?! Am I being way too overprotective when I say that is unacceptable??? How can a dental office expect me to let my toddler go back and basically have medical procedures/decisions performed on her without me present? I think not! Maybe it would be different if she were 8-10 yrs old, but she's 2! I called today to see how flexible they were with that, and apparently not at all. And I quote, "I understand your concern, but if we let you, we'd have to let everyone, and there's simply not room back there." What??? There's a chair in every corner! I promptly canceled her next visit and will be looking for a new dentist. On to the pics:



So then we went on to Bouncertown. Chloe LOVED it. LOVED. IT. Did I mention that she loved it? Because she did...

She was so much braver than I was going to give her credit for. They had five little bouncy stations and I was pretty sure that she was only going to be able to play in the toddler area. But goodness if she didn't prove me wrong and go on EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. Including the HUGE slides. I'll post pictures and video. (Warning:They all came from cell phones, so they aren't the best quality, but what do you do!?!)



Last...Chloe went pee pee in the potty! It's funny because I sit her on the potty before she gets in the bath tub EVERY time. She never goes. I usually put her on again when she gets out. Still, nothing. Today I didn't put her on when she first got on. Then towards the end of her bath, she says she "needs to go poo poo". Back story: We used to have a BIG problem with Chloe going poo poo in the bath tub every time she took a bath. So gross. So everytime I put her in, I repeated, "No poo poo in the bath tub." Then I made her repeat it. We did that several times throughout. Every time. This time she starts saying, "Poo Poo in the bathtub." I ask her if she needs to go, and she says yes. So I took her out of the bath and put her on the potty. I wasn't expecting much because she always does this. But sure enough, she goes pee pee in the potty! And bless her heart, she tried as hard as she could to go poo poo!

But anyway, she got lots of praise, M&M's, and got to make lots of phone calls! Don't get me wrong, I don't think she's anywhere near being ready to potty train, but she certainly is getting a lot closer!