Well it was finally time to dive in head first with this whole taking twins to the dentist thing. We've been putting it off, justifying ourselves by saying they still don't have all their teeth in. But now that we are about to move, we figured it would be best to go ahead and take care of this before our life becomes even more unsettled. =) I'll be honest and say I was just a wee bit nervous about taking two toddlers to the dentist without help. But what choice did I have? It needed to be done, daddy couldn't get off work, and we needed to have those pearly whites looked at. Thankfully they sent all the paperwork to me ahead of time to fill out-I'll just go ahead and say having to fill out tons of paperwork with wiggly, squirming, wanting to be entertained babies is not much fun and rather difficult to get done. So all of that was done ahead of time, thank the Lord! We arrived right on time for our appointment at 9:30am and the girls wasted no time finding this area...toy rooms have a way of attracting little ones...imagine that!
We hardly had to wait at all before they called the girls back and can I just say WOW from the beginning. The staff was incredible with the girls-soo sweet and kind, warm and friendly, fantastic with little ones and made our girls feel at ease in no time. Can't say enough about how great of an experience it was for all 3 of us! So they first let the girls get comfortable being in a new, semi-scary place by digging through the toothbrush drawer. If only I had the ability to make them that happy, ha! And I'm confident that is what sealed the deal for the girls happiness there! =)
From there, they let the girls plop down in the chair together holding their multiple toothbrushes as a comfort and while Makenzie looked a little uneasy, as soon as Maddie Grace joined her up there, she was fine. Each hygienist talked to them, made them laugh, let them pick out their flavor of toothpaste, and then convinced both of them to open their mouth while they brushed their teeth. And they did! Unbelievable to watch the girls let them brush away and then inspect their mouths while they let them do it willingly. =) Needless to say, they were quite impressed to see such cooperative children. I reassured them that they would find out otherwise as soon as they made a stop by our house!
I now breathe a sign of relief, a huge one at that, that the girls survived their 1st trip to the dentist. I wasn't sure if we would leave their mortified from all their kicking and screaming or what, but I am thankful to report it was the most pleasant dental experience to date and I hope I adequately praised the girls enough for their impeccably perfect behavior while we were there. =)
and of course, we had to snap the obligatory picture with their dentist-this is a milestone of course!
And the final highlight of the experience was putting their coin in the machine and twisting it to find their new treasure :) Took them no time at all to figure out how this worked and they loved it! Dentist Trip #1 was finally complete!
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