= Monkey Mouth =

Kris's sister Kari gave me the heads up to this great Monkey Mouth toy, which I got Max for Christmas. It's a perfect toy for Max right now. It's a gorilla head with a whole bunch of empty spaces for his teeth. There's a tub of like play-dough to be used in some teeth molds, as well as an assortment of plastic dental tools.

Max's favorite tool is the battery powered drill. (It's the slowest moving drill you could ever imagine.)
Kris and Max sat down together to do some serious work on the monkey. Max is wearing Kris's thousand dollar loupes here. It made me a little nervous, but he felt seriously cool.

Max kept saying. "It's ok Monkey, don't be scared."

This is obviously a really fun toy for us because it's what Kris does all day, but I would imagine it would be a great toy for any kid who has been to the dentist before or will be going soon. I think it helped Max feel a little more comfortable with the whole dentist thing. Although I don't know how it could with the rate they were yanking out the poor monkey's teeth!








It was fun to see them working together. The drill didn't move fast enough for Kris though, he couldn't handle it. He just pulled teeth, Max did the drilling.

Here's Max fixing his other monkey's teeth.

and his own:

yum yum!