As Kadin is rapidly approaching his first birthday, we took him in for his first dentist visit on Saturday.
The visit reinforced something that I have always strongly suspected; we have a strangely fearless child.
No, not just fearless, but strangely fearless. Allow me to explain.
Strangers do not scare Kadin. On the contrary, he breaks out into huge smiles and frequently puts his hands out as if to touch the passing stranger. Any person who in turn gives him some attention back (and since he's so damn cute, that happens quite frequently) gets treated to the sight of Kadin pretending to be bashful and playing peekaboo on either Tonia's or my shoulder.
The vacuum cleaner does not scare him.
Our dogs, even when barking and running, do not scare him.
The church bells from the church 50 feet from our building do not scare him.
Thunder and/or lightning do not scare him.
Then why say "strangely"?
Because the cardboard drink containers from McDonalds scare him. Heh.
Ok, so back to the dentist story.
I was quite surprised as to how a childs first checkup goes. Dr. Kwok spent a good amount of time talking about how a childs teeth develop over the first few years, and how in order to make the dental experience a pleasant one, they gradually do a little bit more each visit.
Kadin's 6 teeth are all doing quite well, thank you very much. He also had a great time when Dr. Kwok gave him a toothbrush which he sucked a little, then put in my mouth. I vaguely recall a time when a spit soaked toothbrush that wasn't mine would have sent me into fits of convulsive vomiting. These days though, it earns a "Thank you, that's nice!" and not much else.
We had also scheduled a concurrent checkup for Tonia, during which Kadin started screaming (in a happy way, there were a few dental hygeniests who he still wanted to meet), so I took him out to the waiting room where he started flirting with two girls sitting there.
Oh, to celebrate Kadin slept in until 5:30 this morning! WOW!!!!
Posted by Hasan at August 22, 2004 08:24 PM