Dentist!

The kids had their first trips to the dentist today! Brendan went first and was super brave...sat in the chair all by himself (well, Shadow was there too). We were concerned about a sore on his upper gum that seemed to come and go, but never completely went away. The hygienist took one look at him and said, "Did he fall? I bet it's an abscess." Sure enough, took x-rays and one of his front teeth has an abscess. The sore was a fistula that was draining. At some point when Brendan was 3, he fell at school, we can't remember when, it was warm enough to be on the playground though. We noticed a fat lip and a chipped tooth brushing his teeth one night, but other than the lip, he didn't complain and the tooth didn't seem loose, so we left it alone. We never connected that the sore was related. Now, we get to make a trip to a Pediatric Dentist to get the abscessed tooth pulled. Ugh! :(

Katelyn, not to be outdone by her big brother, was super brave too. :) She didn't want to get x-rays taken in the panoramic machine and wasn't really tall enough anyway, but those were our only tears of the morning.