A Brave Girl

Today, I brought E for a couple of injections, to bring her up-to-date as we try to register her for preschool. She did incredibly well!! So much better than I expected. Our earlier experiences with this had taught us that she has a very low pain threshold, and that she'd struggle. So I prepared myself this time, holding her tightly. But she didn't flinch at all, just sat there quietly. Maybe it was the promised reward of two stickers (for two injections) that did the trick! I was very proud of her today.

J, on the other hand, was very upset that he did not get to see, as he put it, "the doctor's stuff". And he was even more upset that he missed out on the stickers. He kept asking E for one sticker, but she quietly and adamantly shook her head each time. She finally had something that he didn't! Oh, but she did eventually relent - it took a handful of chocolate cookies, but she willingly handed one over in the end.