Son, Be A Dentist!

Preface: Shane has recently come to love and understand Horton Hears a Who (the new one). His favorite part to reenact being the dentist scene- it has lots of funny faces, screaming, and other hilarity.

At 4 years old, Shane is officially on CG dental insurance. He had his first dentist appointment yesterday. They signed him up for the whole 9 yards; even though I repeatedly told them an exam only. This was his "cleaning".

A look in the mouth, we'd been practicing this one, but you can still see how thrilled he is.

The counting of the teeth. Shane has 10. He didn't really care.
Testing the polisher on his fingernail. I tried to explain the whole sensory thing, but was talking to the wall, cause they went ahead and tried to get his teeth anyway.

The tucked neck was a big hint, I thought. But when he clamped his mouth shut, refused further "tickling" of his teeth, and demanded the sunglasses off, they gave in.
Choose the toothbrush, schedule him in 6 months to try again.

I was a bit ticked, cause you know they're going to charge the insurance full rate for it.

Shane was disgruntled because he'd wanted to get a toothbrush for Austin too, and they said no. (What an awesome big brother!)
Can't wait to get somewhere where the CG approved dentist understands kids- and realizes that coasties are NOT made up of money, but rather poorer than dirt.