first trip to the dentist!

Isn't it funny how you spend so much energy worrying about things that never come to fruition (like Harrison's transition to his big boy bed that I fretted over for months and it didn't even phase him) and it is the things you never worry about that catch you off guard (like how Harrison ran screaming out of his preschool class when the music teacher starting playing the guitar).  Such as it was with the dentist today.  I have been dreading the day when I had to take Harrison to the dentist.  I pictured me having to hold him down in the chair while he was screaming and then never talking to me again.  I had gone to the same dentist yesterday so I had warned them that it was his first visit.  They assured me that they would only do as much as he would let them so that they would probably only look at and maybe brush his teeth with fluoride.  Well, he did so great that he got the whole drill (no pun intended).
The dental assistant told me (as she probably tells every parent) that he was the best 3 year old she ever had.  He sat completely still while they scraped his teeth, polished them with the rotating brush thing, FLOSSED!, checked for cavities, and painted on fluoride at the end (this was the only thing he complained about b/c he said it tasted "yucky" and made him "feel sick.")

Here are the pictures to prove it!

flossing:

It was also super cute b/c every time they would tell Harrison to open wide, Anne would also do it but I didn't get a picture of that.

The final thing that impressed me was that I was showing Harrison my goody bag from the dentist and I pulled this out and said "see what I got?"

He said, "Colgate Total."  My first thought was "I have raised a genius child who can already read" but then a mili-second later I thought "he probably saw that on tv."  Sure enough, when I asked him who told him that was Colgate Total, he said the tv.  I can't think of a colgate commercial on tv that he is referring to but I'm impressed with their marketing campaign.