{ FLU SHOT }

ok, seriously.....maybe I made a mistake by not telling Thing 1,2 and 3 what I was up to....but after seeing how they all freaked out at their back to school check ups, I really felt it was best. So, here we all are at the doctors office. They call us back to this little room. We are like a little herd....everyone stares at the kids, looks and David and I....looks at the kids more, smiles....ooo's and aaaa's.......and I am thinking to myself.....oh you people just wait!!!!! We all gather in this tiny room and I ask about the mist. NOT AN OPTION. They only give the shots. Sophia hears this statement and goes into COMPLETE meltdown mode. Daniel is sitting the chair and Andrew is backed up against the wall and David is completely shocked at Sophia's state of mind. I pick her up and start pulling up her left sleeve. She is screaming like a wild animal...I am serious.....her eyes were totally glazed over....there was no communicating with her what so ever! And let me tell you, this girl is STRONG! She was kicking and thrashing and it ends up that I have to take part of her dress off. In the meantime, she has pulled her sleeve down and has it in a death grip and I am prying her fingers off it to get her arm out of her sleeve. At this point, Daniel is in the fetal position in the chair just sobbing. I think he was more upset at seeing Sophia so upset and Andrew has backed further up in the corner...... I know just praying that maybe I just might not see him. He is completely serious and is standing there horrified. It takes both David and I to hold Sophia down and TWICE the nurse had to ask us if "WE GOT HER" before she was sure that she could administer the shot. It was like the Tasmanian (sp?) devil.....she was worse then before. It was like 3 minutes of solid shrieking and thrashing with her. David was beyond horrified and I was sweating and shaking. BOOM....the shot is done and the next lucky contestant is Bubba. As soon as I go for him, he turns around and grabs on to the chair in his own death grip attempt to be kept from being pulled on the table. David takes him and tries his best with him but getting him to lay on the table was no easy task. Bubba is very strong as well. And being the baby of the family and so attached to Daddy and Daddy to him, it was very hard on both of them. I glance over at Sophia and she is sitting in the chair with her eyes closed breathing in and out.....like she left the room and went into some sort of meditation......SERIOUSLY?????? The girl is 6.....and she is calming herself down in the chair with breathing?!?!?!?!?!? Anyways.....we finally get Daniel pinned down and as he anticipates the shot, there is about 3 seconds of abrupt silence followed by his screams. Then, lucky contestant number 3 looks at me, shuts and eyes and just drops his mouth wide open and starts screaming the highest most deafening pitch scream I have EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE!!!!! Andrew can start and stop crying like the drop of a hat! Obviously he is so little that getting him on the table was easy. However, the screams never stopped....it was like he needed NO air.....David is beside himself at this point....and I am thinking....yeah....welcome to my world Daddy O.......we get Andrew done and then I hop up on the table and there is COMPLETE silence as they watch my every move......Sophia has stopped her meditation at this point, Daniel's weepy cry stops and Andrews mouth closes and he opens his eyes wide as can be......Mommy smiles and she gets her shot and Daddy too.....the nurse lets them pick out their stickers, says we will need a follow up booster since we didn't do the H1N1 last year, she opens the door and Sophia and Andrew BOLT out of there and Daniel sits in the chair and begins his sad weeping all over again and tells Daddy he can't walk. Daddy picks him up and they do their bonding thing........and.......out we go.....to which the gals at the desk say.......we didn't even know you were here....{insert laughing}.......I load the kids in the car, buckle them because you know they are now incapable of doing that because of the shot they just had.....and David looks at me and says....I am never coming to that kind of party again.......and off to Krispy Kreme we went......I can hardly wait for the next one.....due in 30 days or less! ;)