My Julian

So this morning I wonder how it can be after 8am and Julian not be up. Then I realize, he probably is awake and just trying to make my morning drag. He had a dentist appointment today, the all dreaded dentist was causing my morning child to not move a muscle. So I get on the phone and start telling my mom how Julian isn't awake and how shocking this is, he stirs. I'm happy. I try to get him to eat breakfast but he refuses, we have 30 minutes to be out the door and he is refusing to eat! Ugh this child!! How can he not want to get moving? I mean today is the day we go back to the YMCA, he is going to see his friends and play basketball, how can he just lay there sleeping? Yes, we are going to the dentist first but the only thing the dentist has ever done to him is count his teeth and take x-rays, how can this be a bad thing? He just dreads it though. I finally get him up and is breakfast of choice is a croissant, of which he takes 5 bites and insists he is full. FULL? This kid will eat breakfast like a grown man but today he is full with 5 bites of a croissant??? Whatever! I know he is just being difficult, maybe in hopes that I will beg him to eat and waste more time? Maybe he wants a little extra attention? I know that we aren't going to have time between the dentist and the Y for food but he insists he is full, so I go with it. We brush and floss his teeth and get him ready to go. He goes willingly at this point, the procrastinating has stopped.
We get there and he is in a good mood, I'm on the edge of my seat wondering when he will burst out in tears. Will it be when they want to take x-rays? He has a gag reflex and hates that part. But no, they take x-rays and he is content through that. Is he going to lose it when they clean his teeth, nope, not then either. I sit there ready to bribe him with whatever it is he wants to make this visit go smoothly but there was never a need. He was ready to be done at one point, looked a bit teary and asked if we could take the bib off and leave. I told him "soon" and that was all it took. He was perfectly well behaved the whole time. No tears, no bribes, nothing! Even when they came back and said they needed to retake an x-ray he just said "okay". Oh I was so proud of him!!
So we went from there to the Y and then off to McD's for a "healthy" lunch minus the soda, don't want to mess up that flouride treatment. He got praised from the dentist for having such fantastic teeth and got some stickers and a token for the prize machine. Last but not least his picture was taken for the no cavity club. Another successful dentist visit under our belt, we'll see if he will go to the back by himself next time!