It's days like today that remind me why I love being home with Josilyn! We started the morning off with a little book reading ("Are You My Mother?" is our new favorite); she knows some of her books so well that she will actually "read" them to me and bunny! Then we had breakfast and got ready for our big consult with a specialist in childrens dentistry. We talked about the visit all morning so by the time we got there she was running into the building saying "cheese!" for her pictures.
If only that good mood would have stuck around once the doc tipped her back and started checking things out. Even with her "invisible" sunglasses on Josilyn ended up screaming more during this visit than she did from her actual fall. If the tears wouldn't have been flowing I would have tried to snap a pic of her in the chair with her shades on and the big x-ray jacket weighing her down. Priceless.
The good and the bad. The good news is that the doc was pretty optimistic that no major nerve damage was done!!! Yippee. That means no capping or filling of the tooth (which would have meant sedating her during the procedure). The bad news is that the tooth will probably still change color and fall out early. She put Josilyn on a 2-week soft food only diet to make sure the gum tissue can properly heal and still wants us to come back to file the tooth down .... ugh. Let's hope we won't have too many more visits like this for awhile :o) Another positive to the trip, they gave Josilyn a beautiful pink studded tiara for being such a good girl during her visit!
The rest of the day we spent enjoying the gorgeous weather. Swimming in the pool, watering the flowers, reading more books, doing the laundry, terrorizing Ozzie and going potty TWICE on her big girl potty ... all on her own!
This leads me to wonder if it is finally time? I don't want to jump the gun but in the past couple weeks Josilyn has been more and more interested in the potty. She's been using it enough that I'm tempted to breakout the Elmo undies and give it a 100% go. But am I really ready for her to be potty-trained? That makes all of our outings during the day a whole lot more difficult. Selfish on my part, maybe!
We ended the day with a walk around the neighborhood, feeding the ducks, playing at the park, feeding the ducks again, and another round of "Are You My Mother?". Ahhh! Does life get any better than this!?!?
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