Dr. Ted

Dr. Ted is our pediatric dentist. I wish he was my dentist. His office has lots of neat stuff. There is a play room for the kids who are waiting. But I think the best part of the office are the TV's mounted in the ceiling. When the kids are in the dental chairs they can look at a TV on either the wall or above them. There are always a variety of kids shows playing.

Yesterday, both Meghan and Mathew had their checkups. Everything was fine for Mathew. But for poor Meghan it was another story. A quick exam of her mouth showed one of her permanent teeth had erupted yet her baby teeth had not fallen out. An x-ray confirmed that there was another tooth just waiting to emerge. Unless Meghan's two baby teeth were removed, they would cause the adult teeth to come in crooked and daddy to have a huge orthodontics bill.

So out they came. Meghan was a real trooper. A lot of the credit goes to Dr. Ted. He's great at keeping the kids calm and working fast. Before we knew it, the two baby teeth were under Meghan's pillow for the tooth fairy! In the morning, there was $6.00 from the Tooth Fairy. $5 for the first tooth and $1 for the second. What a way to start her birthday.

Not to much later, Meghan got an Enchanted Call from Cinderella with a special birthday greeting. Unfortunately, a little bit later, I had to leave for Emily and Andrew's wedding. I'll try to post some photos from the wedding in the next couple of days.