Pictures, Dentists and Docs

We woke up bright and early this morning for the kids teeth cleaning appointment. I had great plans to get Owen's teeth cleaned for the first time today. As soon as we got in our room, Owen puked all over his stroller. As I was cleaning out his mouth before the dentist came in, I found a stash of peanut m&m's in his left cheek, stored there since last night. Awesome. The dentist came in and Owen went into hysterics. Owen doesn't scream like that... ever!! More on that in a second. After I snuggled him for a second, he let the dentist take a peek at his sparkly white chompers. "They aren't perfect, there is some crumbling, but there's not much we can do right now." With all the puking, cardiac meds and anesthesia, his teeth are just not in perfect shape. We do brush them all the time, but apparently he's going to need some work as he gets bigger and that's usually done under anesthesia at the hospital. Until that day, in the distant future, we will continue to brush and be thankful they are baby teeth and will eventually fall out!
Kamryn, on the other hand, had perfect brushing skills and zero cavities. She has never had a cavity and I can't be more proud. I remember going to the dentist as a kid and there was always a few. She has some loose molars and some upper teeth are finally wiggly. You have no idea how bad I want to slap some braces on those little chompers of hers, sooner rather than later.
The other day, after school, I told the kids that I really wanted to run outside and snap a few photos of them. Real quick. All they had to do was smile for me and we'd be done. Easy. The joke was on me. Kamryn had a meltdown and didn't want to have her picture taken. I have NO idea how hard it is to be at school all day and all she wanted to do was relax. I was torturing her. Here's proof.

Then I made her smile and got this beauty out of her! Then she apologized for being crabby and gave me a huge hug. Can this girl get any more perfect? I think not.

Owen was thrilled to go outside and smile for me. He has this new crinkle-nosed smile that cracks me up. He doesn't realize that it makes him look like he's snarling at me and he probably wouldn't care much either. Mister Owen.. you are HILARIOUS!

Earlier in the day, we had gone for a quick visit with Dr S.,Owen's GI doc. I keep saying that I am never going back to him. This time was the last straw. After Owen was weighed, measured and we were done talking about puke and poop, the doc reached towards Owen and started stabbing at his belly. Just like that. No warning, no talking to Owen first, no asking me if it was okay to touch my child... just started poking and pushing on his tummy. I lost it and then he said "I don't know what I did to upset him!" Seriously? Really. I really need to get a new GI doc.

I'm pretty sure Owen freaked out at the dentist today because he had such a bad experience the other day at GI. Poor kid. As soon as he realized Dr Welch (dentist) was a "good guy", he showed off his crazy snarly smile for him. Dr Welch also said not to worry about the binki for now... he agrees that Owen needs it for comfort during surgery. So.. we'll keep the binki until surgery is over, then it will miraculously disappear.. hopefully along with the oxygen.

I finally got everything scheduled at Stanford. I called back to schedule his ECHO and pre-op appointments because I just knew someone in the Cardiac MRI department would drop the ball on that, and they did. I still haven't heard back from Dr R.'s office on whether or not Owen needs a Cardiac followup, but I am going to purchase my airline tickets today and I figure they will squeeze him in if necessary.

I can't believe it's already Thursday. We said Goodbye to our favorite Speech Therapist yesterday and she set him up with another amazing therapist. Our new ST called and said she has ASU Graduate students come out with her each week and wanted to make sure Owen would be okay with that. Are you kidding? He's going to eat up all that extra attention each week.

Kamryn helped me with the new blog look. I hope ya'll like it.