Olivia enjoyed her first day of preschool last Friday! She was so ready and so cute. She will be attending the BYUI child lab this semester. Stephen and I had to go to a parent orientation meeting a couple of weeks ago and they reminded us to bring immunization records. I fished hers out and realized that she was not up to date on 2-3 shots. I quickly made an appointment to get her up to date on those shots the day before Preschool (Thursday)- well, what I didn’t know was that they would take care of the whole kindergaren shot shabang too! She ended up receiving 8 shots – 4 in each leg and one was the flu shot! It was hard to hold her down (physically and emotionallyl), but my heart was healed when the nurse gave her 8 suckers (one for each shot) and she instantly stopped crying. A sucker will go a long way with a 4 year old people! Now she is good to go immunization-wise for many years! And the kindergarten turned Preschool shots are now history, never to visit Olivia again.
I felt so guilty that I took her over to the dollar store for some princess lipgloss and stamps, followed by a trip through the McDonalds drive thru for a happy meal. I think she thought she hit the lottery, I almost NEVER go to McDonalds – she even reminded me that I hate it.
It was worth it to make a sweet little girl feel like a princess after being poked relentlessly as her mom helped pinn her down – I hope I was able to condition her memory to hold onto the good things.
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Comments:
michelle said…
Ouch-poor little girl. I guess its good to have it all over with. She looks so cute and ready for school.
Monday, September 28, 2009 8:22:56 AM
Anne said…
Will went to that preschool to and loved it! Hope you have lots of fun Olivia! Owie! Still don’t like the shots either. Hope you got some real cool bandaids!
Monday, September 28, 2009 11:09:54 AM
Riley said…
You’re such a big girl Olivia!!!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:31:12 PM
Trevin and Stephanie said…
Way to be tough! Your mom is so nice to make sure you are safe from sicknesses and even nicer to take you to McDonald’s. Good luck with school.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:04:11 PM