Shots

Miller had her four year check up today. She was supposed to get five shots, but I asked the doctor to break them up and only give her three. I wasn't sure how she was going to react....would we be calling in extra nurses to pin her down like we did with Colby last year? (Colby did not have shots this year) Would she lay perfectly still, cooperate, but just cry tears like she did last year? We talked about it beforehand, and she seemed a little nervous. We talked about how it would pinch, but it would only last for a second and then it would be over.

When the nurse came in, Miller wanted to take a good hard look at the needles. They didn't seem to scare her. Then, she decided she would lay down instead of sit, so she laid back on the table. The nurse told her to take a big breath, so she breathed in and out. I held her hand and stared at her face as the first shot came. Nothing. No facial movement. No tears. No grimace. No reaction at all. And she did that with ALL. THREE. SHOTS.

I could not believe it, and neither could the nurse. She said she could only remember one other time that a four year old did not cry or get upset at all.

Boy, am I proud. She may as well have won the Gold medal in the Olympics.

Miller weighed in at 48.5 pounds and 43 inches. "Way above the 95th percentile", but on the same path she has always been on.

She spent the rest of the day pulling up her dress to anyone who walked by to show off her bandaids. She was proud, too.