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Boy did we learn a big lesson tonight, and that is that Mikey not only completely understands what a time out is but he also is willing to use it on one of us. The scene of events went like this. I was making dinner in the kitchen and Mikey was playing in the living room with daddy and for some reason daddy decided to play bite Mikey. Mikey kept yelling No Daddy No Daddy and Gary was laughing at him trying to entice him to come close to him. Picture Mikey in a corner afraid to get out of it because he might get bitten. Well I come out from the kitchen to see what all of the commotion was about and tell Mikey to tell daddy to not bite him and that daddy should go to time out for doing that. What came next surprised the both of us. Mikey went up to Gary, grabbed his hand, and walked him to the corner that we use for time outs. He then told Gary to sit down and walked away from him. At the end of the time out Mikey went back up to him for a hug like he has to give us at the end of his time outs. Amazing that at 2 years old he already understands what and how to use a time out.

Sooooooooo a few weeks ago Mikey got into an accident at daycare. He was riding a tricycle around the playground and another kid bumped into him. He hit his mouth on the bar of the trike and had a bad cut and bruise on his lower lip. It looked ugly but he healed and was fine.

Fast forward to a few days ago when Gary noticed one of Mikey’s top front teeth that looked discolored. I looked at it and couldn’t really tell. Well when I was at the pediatrician’s office on Monday to get his flu shots I had him on my lap and I start tickling him and he leaned back and was laughing so I got a good look into his mouth again and noticed that the back side of that tooth looked like it was bruised in a way. I googled “toddler bruise tooth” which was the wrong thing to do because I see baby root canal and damage to adult tooth and blah blah blah. So I stopped and said I’d take him to the dentist to find out for sure. I made an appointment for him with a GREAT pediatric dentist! I wanted a pediatric dentist because they’d make Mikey more comfortable since all they do is deal with kids all day long, and what a GREAT decision that was!!

I took him this morning and they were very nice to him. He was scared and cried while they gently cleaned his teeth, by the end he was whining and looking around, clearly not scared. They did an x-ray of his teeth to check out the root of the tooth in question and his adult teeth as well to make sure that it didn’t get damaged. He got fluoride paste put on his teeth too, and I was told to keep him on the fluoride free toothpaste until he’s 3.

The doc came in and looked over his teeth and looked at the x-ray and said that thankfully there was no nerve damage and his permanent teeth look good. She even showed me his adult teeth on the x-ray. *Sniff* My little man has adult teeth growing.

His tooth could possibly get darker, or if a capillary grows back it could start to lighten up again if it gets enough oxygen, but it isn’t a big deal and he’ll be fine just as long as he doesn’t get an infection or abscess which I need to look out for when I brush his teeth.

So overall a GREAT 1st visit. Now begins a lifetime of dentist visits every 6 months for my big kid.

I was going to wait to get Mikey’s first real dentist visit until he was 3 because everything I read said to wait until then, but change of plans. A few weeks ago Mikey got into an accident at school where he was bumped when he was on a trike. He hurt his lip pretty bad, but it never occurred to me that he could have had damage to his teeth. Well the other day Gary pointed out that one of Mikey’s top teeth looked discolored. I looked at it but didn’t really notice it until when I had him on my lap and made him laugh my tickeling him and was able to see his teeth better and the backside of the tooth definitely looks discolored. Almost like the tooth is bruised. I did what I normally do and that is pull up google and see what I could find. Let’s just say you really should stay away from self-diagnosing because you never pull up good news. I saw baby root canal and decided I’m not going to look it up anymore. I’ll take him to a dentist and let them tell me what is wrong and if there is anything to worry about. So his first appointment is tomorrow morning with a pediatric dentist. I’m hoping he’ll do well with having a stranger look into his mouth. *crossing fingers* I tell you its always something!

Yesterday afternoon I came home with a HUGE box containing our 9ft Christmas tree. Yeah you read that right, 9 feet!!!! The box has a picture of the tree on the side of the box with the tree all pretty and lit up. As soon as we brought the box in the house Mikey ran over to it, saw the tree and yelled out, Christmas Tree Yay! And started clapping. He was seriously excited about the tree I had NO idea that he knew that this specific tree was called a Christmas tree but apparently the sponge he is, he remembered from the trees we saw last week at Disney. Every time we saw a HUGE tree we’d stop and look at them and I called them Christmas Trees, so he remembered