May 29th
I can't believe that the school year is over! It's so crazy how fast time goes and how much these kids grow. In a few months I will have a 6th Grader and 4th Grader!
I don't have pictures of the event, but I need to blog about it.
It was finally time for Jaina to get her Kindergarten shots. Last year at her 4 year check up the nurse asked me if I wanted to do the Kindergarten shots and I said no, that we would wait. Of course, Jaina being Jaina, she heard the word 'shot' and flipped out. Literally, for the next year, she talked about shots and said she was scared about it. She has so much anxiety for these sort of things. We tried so many times to talk to her about it and she even watched and episode of Daniel Tiger about visiting the doctor. So when it came time to actually do the shots I thought she was finally okay with it, because she said she would be a big girl and get the shots. Well, that's not how the appointment went. We were in the office first thing in the morning and she became Mrs. Anxiety again. When it was time for the shots, she refused! There was so much talking from me and the nurse for at least 15 minutes to try to get her to calm down. She kept saying she would make the choice and let the nurse give the shots, but then she wouldn't do it. We even had the nurse leave for a bit, but when she came back with a second nurse, Jaina flipped out even more. So finally after 20+ minutes she said she would get the shots. So I had her on my lap and she was still throwing a bit of a fit. So the nurse put Jaina's legs between her's and I held Jaina's arms tight to her chest and then she finally got the shots. Afterwards she just screamed and cried, but when we got stickers from the front desk she started to calm down a bit. I had told her that we would go get lunch from McDonald's afterwards, so we did. It was such a traumatic thing for her, but it was finally over. I told her that she doesn't need any more until she's Xander's age (12), so she's pretty happy about that.
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