Dentist trip first thing this morning. The dentist there is the one I have been going to since I was about 12 (although strangely he never seems to have gotten any older) and we even stayed with him as our dentist while we lived up north and just timed our visits home around our six monthly checkups. But last time we went in July he told us that he had sold the practise and was going to work in Harley Street. So today we met the bloke who bought the practise off him and is our new dentist. Ady is quite dentist-phobic although I am not and have made sure the children are fine with it too. We always thought our previous dentist was at the very forfront of new dental techiques and technology but this new guy had some amazing stuff in his surgery. He took xrays which he talked through with us, then he uses this tiny camera to take pics of any work that needs doing inside your mouth and shows you on a massive pc screen so you know what he is charging you a hundred quid to do 🙂 Ady was fine and I need a small filling (and I’ve seen on screen where I need it to so I know he is telling the truth!) 🙂 And unlike old dentist he uses tooth coloured fillings which is nicer. Booked in for it next week. He also showed me the backs of my bottom front teeth which are yucky and yellow (too much tea 😉 ). Then the kids had a go each and Davies apparantly has a small cross bite which is fine in his milk teeth but will have to be corrected if it grows through in his grown up teeth, and Scarlett is pushing her front teeth forward with her dummy 🙁 She only really has it at bedtime although I have started to give it to her in the car if she gets whingey. Davies threw his away just before he was three and I had aimed to do the same with her, but the dentist said if she stops now it should correct itself, if not then it will get worse and effect her smile and possibly her speech and may even make the bone like it so her adult teeth grow through like it too 🙁 Erk! We have decided to restrict it for now to totally just bedtime and take it out as soon as she is asleep with a view to losing it altogether asap. I know it will be traumatic for all of us now but I am sure she will thank me for it in years to come – well at least it will be one less thing to go blaming us for when she hits puberty anyway 😉 I know she’d accept alcohol as a substitute but I’m not sure the justification could be considered good parenting 🙂 Anyway they both got stickers of The Incredibles which went down well and he commended me / them on very clean teeth (which is possibly a fluke I am not always that consciencious about getting them to clean them 🙂 ) and £128 later with a further bill of £75 for next week’s filling home we all came.
Kids are now playing some elaborate game which seems to involve getting lots of toys out oh and Davies has conjunctivitus – he developed it late yesterday afternoon and it very quickly got yucky and in both eyes 🙁 I used to get it all the time as a kid and clearly remember crawling from bed to the bathroom to get wet cotton wool to soak them ’til I could get my eyelids open again. I did warn him that he probably wouldn’t be able to open his eyes when he woke up this morning and left some boiled water and cotton wool by his bed for him and sure enuough I spent ages de-glooping them this morning. Ady had also brought home some cream which I managed to get in his eyes and although swollen and pink they are no longer ‘leaking’ discharge and he says they are not sore. A quick lesson in Japan and Japanese ensued though as this morning I told him he looked like a little Japanese boy and I didn’t think he’d paid any attention ’til we got to the dentist and there was a bonsai tree in the waiting room. I started to explain about them being Japanese and he reminded me about what I had said this morning. Time is right to start discussing culture, difference of appearances and so on methinks.
Oh and the last bit for now was that I started to read him Alice in Wonderland at bedtime last night. We’ve had it ages from a charity shop but he chose it off the bookcase for the first time. Its a very weird tale (as was discussed on MP recently) and I really didn’t think he was paying much attention until the only question he asked was ‘what’s a waist?’ (Duchess takes Alice’s arm and says ‘I suppose you wish I would put my arm around your waist don’t you?’) Then this morning on the way back from the dentist he piped up with ‘Mummy this seatbelt is hurting my waist!’ He does like to use his new learnt words at the first available opportunity 🙂 but I’m staggered the only part of such a fantastical tale of talking creatures, playing card royalty and crochet with flamingos and hedgehogs was ‘what’s a waist?’ 🙂
croquet! Playing croquet with flamingos – visions of flamingos and big balls of wool there 😉
Comment by jax — 29 January 2005 @ 10:50 am