Dental Hygiene

Every night after her bath, I brush Avery's teeth. She has 6 cute little teeth and I try really hard to keep them clean. No daughter of mine will have poor dental hygiene. These pictures sum up our nightly routine pretty well.

First I try and show her how FUN it is to brush.

 see mommy brusha brusha brusha

 Then I sing a lovely sprout channel song about brushing your teeth....she seems interested......I am able to get those 2 bottom teeth...

 she giggles when she sees me or Daddy brushing our teeth so I always try and pretend like I am doing it., she never buys it though

 ok, now for the dreaded top teeth........

 I try and reason with her. I explain if we don't brush them she will have skanky teeth (is it too early to use the word skanky with her???) Either way, look at that face, she is officially ticked off now.

 hurry hurry hurry

 I use the towel to help me hold her arms down and prevent her from grabbing the toothbrush from me

 let the screaming begin...

 --side note...look how cute those 3 wild strands of hair are on her   =)

When I am finished I give her the toothbrush to play with (she just gums at it). She immediately starts smiling again. All she wants is to get her hands on that toothbrush so SHE can play with it, not me. I am pretty certain she smirks at me everytime I finish and give it to her, as if she thinks she won the fight because she got the toothbrush in the end. Sigh. The girl has attitude, but at least she has clean teeth too.