Taking a four year old to the dentist

Lily and Mandy have dental appointments this morning. Lily woke up, immediately remembered that she was mad at me last night when she went to bed and started crying again. She hadn't even gotten out of bed and she was already crying again. I don't think our appointment is going to go well.

I tried cuddling her, while watching cartoons. I tried breakfast. She was still crying about how I sent her to bed last night before she had a chance to put her babies to sleep. It was well past her bedtime because we had to pick up Mandy from school after 9PM due to an away volleyball game. Lily had missed her nap because I had to take Mandy to school, to get on the bus for the away volleyball game.

Usually we spend ages doing our going to bed stuff. Last night there was too much drama. After reading books, drinking milk, going potty, washing hands, brushing teeth, I was done with it all and I made Lily go to bed without allowing her to put all of her ten thousand and one babies to bed first. So, when she woke up this morning, she usually goes and says good morning to her babies, and this morning they were not all tucked in and poor Lily remembered she is very mad at me. Last night she fell asleep after about 30 seconds of crying. I was patting myself on the back for making the right decision, she was obviously very tired. But, today, I am regretting it a bit.

So I left her crying about her babies after an hour of trying to reason with her, I went and took a loooooong shower and did my hair and makeup. At least if I am going to be absolutely humiliated at the dentist today I will look respectable.