This February has been a productive month as far as visiting health providers goes.

Our pediatrician had not seen Claire & Rhys since they were newborns as she herself had twins of her own and was away on maternity leave until recently. She couldn’t believe how much Claire & Rhys have grown! Claire grew 6 centimetres since her last visit which we were told was quick growth. They are both healthy kids and instead of visiting the doctor every 3 months we can now stretch it to one year.

Visiting the dentist for the first time can be a little scary so we made sure to read lots of stories that had a dentist in them like the Richard Scarry books. Funny thing is, in these stories the dentist is a bear. Claire & Rhys were now convinced a big bear would be looking at their teeth at the dental office and for some reason that didn’t scare them at all 🙂  I think telling them that they had fish at the dentist office was the most exciting thing though and they loved watching them while we waited for the appointment to start (albeit Rhys was disappointed there wasn’t a shark).

Rhys had the first exam and the dentist said to Rhys that after the exam he could go and pick something from the toy box. We have never seen Rhys be so helpful and agreeable! He jumped up onto the chair and leaned back with his mouth wide open. He loves getting little presents! Claire was scared of the chair and she had some tears. It turned out okay when Jimmy sat in the chair with her. They did great and hopefully future visits to the dentist won’t be so scary.