As I have mentioned before, Ace's teeth has got some sort of bacterial that comes back all the time and thus, it requires regular cleaning at the dentist... just before we came to dubai.. we had his teeth cleaned but not long after he arrived, it started turning black again... mostly also because this little boy always tries to cheat and not brush his teeth at night...
So the other day, when I saw this really good deal on groupon, I asked Max to purchase it.. it was a 599dh package tat includes xray, cleaning and flouride and a check... all at the price of just 99dhs...
As the voucher is only valid for a few months, just before Ace's godma came to visit, we decided to bring him to the dentist...
The dentist looked like a very atas place and initially, i tot it was a children's dental clinic.. only to find that it was not one tat served children... Ace was rather frightened after the last experience in Singapore and no matter how I tried to prep talk him.. he still says he is frightened and chooses to be frightened...
When we arrived, the nurse brought Ace to do an xray on his teeth. Apparently, he says it was quite painful for him as there was like a clip to clip his jaws into place... but he turned out ok in the end....
As we were brought to a plainly furnished dental room, Ace asked if I could hold his hand and I told him it is time that he learnt to be brave and do this by himself.. but I would stay in the room...
And then, the dentist arrived.. it was a rather young Syrian doctor who had been living in USA for 9 years before relocating here about a year ago... he is quite upbeat and friendly and tried to intro himself to Ace. Since he has four kids himself (I found out as we chit chatted while he was doing his job), I think he is rather good with kids as well...
First, he asked Ace to lie down and my son, wanting to find watever excuse to run away from this ordeal said the light shining down was too bright... and guess wat? The nurse brought back a pair of sunshades for Ace! wahahahahha
And after putting on the shades, Ace did not want to lie down again. The dentist tried to make him feel comfy and said we cannot force him.. so he asked Ace, "Do you have any questions before we start? We will answer all your questions and make sure you are ok and agreeable before we proceed.. ok?"And so, my son started to use this as an excellent excuse to delay time right? So he started asking what is this.. what is that.. it was like a mini lesson at the dentist lor...
"Ace, don't waste Mr Dentist's time..." I said but the dentist said it is ok.. let him ask.... and really patiently answered all his questions till Ace had no questions left..
Then the dentist said they were going to start and showed Ace what he was going to use.. But no matter how he asked Ace to touch the salt spray contraption (which was a better tool to clean Ace's teeth), Ace refused to touch it as it had a seemingly sharp, thin tip... like a sharp pencil ...So in the end, boh pian lor.. gotto use the round round rubber thing with some sort of paste.. which is less effective...
Anyway, as he cleaned Ace's teeth, the dentist started chatting with me.. first asking me if I was from China.. and then I said I was from Singapore and he asked if that was a part of China... and when i explained tat we are an independent country... right next to malaysia and thailand (thinking he might have heard of these countries) and he asked if we were a part of Malaysia and if I have heard of Brunei.. wahahahahahaha... HILARIOUS!
My mum met an American some 30 years ago and got asked the same question... 30 years later, with the world becoming smaller with the internet, I am surprised that someone well educated and seemingly exposed to more of the world like Mr Dentist actually did not know where Singapore is!!
Anyway, as he was cleaning, he just chit chatted with me and with Ace... and praising Ace every now and then for being a brave boy.. intially, Ace trembled.. and kept asking the dentist to stop every now and then... but after a while, I noticed that when I wanted to ask the dentist to stop, instead of saying stop, Ace started to count from 0-10 using his fingers.... once he reached 10, he recounted again if the dentist was not done yet....
What a brilliant idea? And he came up with it all by himself! I asked him later how he came up with the idea and he merely said that he made a choice to be brave and so he decided to count...
Anyway, the dentist is very patient.. after he finished the cleaning, he told Ace that some people's teeth are just more prone to retaining colour.. there is nothing wrong with his teeth but to keep them white, he has to brush properly twice a day.. once in the morning and once at night..And then he even taught Ace how to brush teeth using a teeth model:)
And then Ace got his flouride treatment and instructions to keep away from sweet things for the next two hours.. I told him rest of the day no sweet things for him.. wahahaha:)
Anyway, we realized that Wafi shopping mall is within our view.. so we decided to walk there and hang around and wait for Max to pick us up...After an adventure walk (we had to brave through sprinklers tat made us wet and crazy drivers driving on the roads), we finally arrived in Wafi:) I brought Ace to their Christmas center piece.. which has the theme of Toy Soldiers this year.
He saw the brochure and asked me if he could get a ticket to go and visit santa clause because for 55 dirhams, you get a photo with santa on his lap.. and a toy soldier soft toy.. I think and some vouchers for you to eat and drink inside Wafi.. But i was thinking that since I am not going ot eat here, the voucher swill be quite useless so quite boh hua lor... But i was tempted to do it since he was such a good boy.... But I told him we wait and see first.. thinking if we going to eat dinner here, then maybe I will do it:)
But the centrepiece was not much to see.. so after a while, we started walking around the mall.. i saw these bling bling shoes and asked ace if he would wear them when he grows up since he likes all things shiny.. my son always tells me he likes bling bling and he likes bling things on me.. plus when he is in school and see shiny paper or streamers or sequinnes, he will bring them home!!!!But he says they are too bling for boys.. tat is more for women.. wahahha:)
Anyway, I saw this interesting thing when walking around... what a great quote from Cinderella:)
And I guess Ace got bored also cos we like walked around that boring mall something like 5 times:) So he got me to take pics of him with this and that...
We came across this shop tat sells the prettiest christmas ornaments lor.. so lovely.. right?:P
After a while, we were really tired and so I went back to the christmas tree area to sit down and rest.. after a while, we saw someone pulling a sleigh along... and then, who should come onto the sleigh but SANTA CLAUS!So Ace got to wave at Santa.. hehehe.. Apparently, it is either for Santas to change shift or to go for his pee break cos after a while, he came back again in a sleigh and went into the room for the meet and greet...
One more pic to show off his now very white teeth:)
Anyway, Max came to pick us and we decided to head somewhere else for dinner since it was so boring here... we decided on food court in Lamcy Plaza in the end so that Ace can eat his mac donalds and drink MILK (for his teeth). We found that at the foodcourt, there is also a Santa's house and all you needed to do is sign up...
There was even like a workshop where Ace got to make his own christmas photo frame.. I just however, did not like the way they run it.. they insisted the children make the frame exactly like the sample they had.. I whispered to Ace that he can do and paste it however he likes:) hehehe... cos i think it is more impt to be creative!
Tadah, his very special photoframe all done:)
And he even got a little soft toy from the Santa meet and greet!Ace was sooooooooooooooooo happy to get it because he told me, "Santa gave me a present, mummy... because I am a good boy..." So I guess it is more of the defination of being a good boy that he was seeking...
Anyway, he has named his monkey Little Chubby and has been happily playing with LC ever since:)I guess the heavens also still decided to reward Ace for his bravery despite giving Ace a super ngiaow mummy!;)
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