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Theo went for his first dentist visit today. We’ve been talking it up for a while, especially the part about the special chair that moves up and down. Nana sent a book “Barney Goes to the Dentist” a while ago that we’ve been reading pretty regularly. There’s a little girl named Ashley in the book, who, yeah you guessed it, goes to the dentist! When we were done with the visit, Theo asked me where Ashley was. But I get ahead of myself. Despite all the preparations, I was significantly apprehensive about the appointment, especially when Theo started the morning off by throwing a granola bar on the floor of the car in a fit of rage over it being — horrors!– sticky. Then he sobbed and sobbed and sobbed, and I started feeling verrrrrry nervous about how things were going to go. Well, it turned out that I had nothing to fear. He was such a little champ, clambering without hesitation up onto the chair and informing the technician that it moves up and down, lest she forget to use that feature for him. He obediently opened his mouth when asked (and even before he was asked — watch the video to see this). He selected the chocolate flavor for the cleaning paste and later told his classmates at daycare “I ate chocolate” and pointed into his mouth while they all peered in trying to see it. He tended to answer all questions (”how old are you?”, “do you let mommy brush your teeth?”) with long-winded and irrelevant stories about trains but we’ll let that go for now.

We’ve been having my favorite kind of weather lately: crisp fall sweater weather. (Speaking of sweaters, I want to explain those photos of me in my various outfits that you’re seeing on the Flickr page recently. I joined this group on Flickr where people post pictures of what we wore to work that day. I’m finding it entertaining and inspirational to see what other people are wearing, so I’m participating, too. It’s been fun, plus it gives me incentive to try to put myself together a little. It’s also a great litmus test for an outfit — I assume that complete lack of supportive comments from other members is an indication that the outfit is a dud.)

Anyway, as I was saying, lovely weather lately. We went on a walk in the woods on Saturday, photos on our Flickr page.