a couple dr. visits

pace had his 3 year old check up last week and did great!  weight:  27 lbs, height 36 3/4", and they also start measuring bmi, and pace rang in at a whopping 14.3.  long and lean, this boy.  both he and max got their flu shots, and they both cried, but max was up and at 'em within a few minutes.  pace decided he needed to prolong his pain and walked around, slow motion, with a peg leg for the rest of the morning.  at first i thought he had an accident, but when i asked him he said, "i'm walking slow, make my shot feel better."  he also was very careful and sat gingerly while playing with his trucks, insisted i not touch his leg, prop it up on his teddy bear for his nap, and not let his blanket lay on top of his leg.  sweet boy.  

while we were busy at the dr.'s, david finally caught the flu that we'd passed around and got sick while working.  even though his managers wouldn't let him go home, they sent two other drivers out to finish delivering the mall for him.  so he'd throw up, then point at which boxes to deliver next, and tell them know where to go in the mall, then lay down on the cold metal truck waiting for the next round.  makes sense, right?  yeah, i didn't think so, either.  needless to say, david called in sick the next day.

so david got to do tooth day with us!  we did some tooth activities, looked at the anatomy book, and then visited the dentist!  our dentist office does a "play appointment" for kids to help lessen the anxiety.  this was perfect for pace!  we waited in the waiting room,

eyed the candy (?!),

the best hygienist in the world, loreen, showed us all the dentist tools and let pace and max ride in the "elevator chair",

take turns brushing the dragon's teeth (loreen instructed pace to brush in circles, and now every night pace says we need to do circles while brushing his teeth), met the dentist, who counted all 20 of pace's teeth,

and we got a balloon at the end!  pace told the office workers he was "three, like this", when they asked how old he was.

(one of our tooth activities at home--we glued fuzzies onto a paper mouth and used a pipe cleaner to practice flossing.)