AJ at 2 years

It has been 2 months since AJ turned 2 and he has already grown so much. At his 2 year check up he weighed 30 pounds and measured 35 inches. That makes him 50% and 75%, respectively, for his age group. We are still waiting on the 2 year molars to come through, but that could be tomorrow or it could be months from now. He is such a social butterfly and knows how to work any crowd.

Now that AJ is 2, we took him for his first dentist visit yesterday. He was in such good spirits and loved the toys in the waiting room, until he clocked his head and got a huge goose egg. After that all he did was cry "back home to AJ's house!" Luckily, the dentist is only a couple miles from the house and Art was able to leave work and help comfort AJ. He was such a good boy and let the hygienist not only clean and polish his teeth, but also go back over them with a pumice gel to get off the iron stains from his vitamins. He was not as fond of the dentist - she was a little bit quicker and not as gentle and reassuring as the hygienist. We did not get the stains off his back teeth, but I was told they would not do any harm and we can get them next time. All in all, the only bad experience was the waiting room - we'll take it! (Note to self - AJ cut his first tooth at 7 months and 1 week. This was a question on the new patient paperwork and it took me FOREVER to find where I wrote that down. I reread all old blog posts thinking it had to be in there - wrong! - but now it is here.)