Open wide like...a hippo!

Turning 3 years old also marked the time for Austin to take his first trip to the dentist! He was so excited! We had talked about it for a few months ahead of time and every time either Daddy or I had a dentist appointment in the meantime, he wanted very much to go with us!

He did so very good! I think he didn't know that he was supposed to be nervous.





The dentist was great. He showed Austin all the tools he was going to use and of course, Austin was totally intrigued with them.





And he did great holding his mouth open every time he was supposed to. The only problem was the dentist kept telling him to open wide like a crocodile. Except that Austin doesn't really know that crocodiles open big, but he does know that hippos do. So each time I'd whisper, "Open like a hippo," and then he'd get it. The dentist seemed to think that was a little weird!



And afterwards he got to pick a toy. He wanted one of everything! After trying to decide for more than 10 minutes, I finally picked for him! Otherwise, we might have been there all day!