cool band-aids

oh where to start! so much has happened in a week. a week!

back tracking to kadence getting ready for kindergarten - aka booster shots. oh lord. if i wasn't so evil i wouldn't still be laughing. making our way to the doctor, i still did not disclose to her that she was in fact getting 4 shots. kadence was asking often and i would just comfort her and let her know that the doctors would look at her records and let us know for sure. i didn't want to have her truly upset before we even left the drive way. i had to pick my battle here. so here i am deflecting it as long as i could when the doctor finally gave us the answer. "yes dear you are getting shots today." "how many, how many, how many???" kadence desperately asks... i reassured her that we would find out from the lady who gives the shots - remember now i have ty and kambel with me too, i am trying to avoid a huge meltdown here. i get kadence calm in the waiting room prior to walking back to the immunization room. i remind her to remember what her daddy told her on the phone. he told kadence to tell the doctors that they can only give her shots if they have cool band-aids and to make sure they saw her muscles. having these things fresh in her mind, i was certain we would be okay and she would just suck it up and move on. welllllllllll. as i made sure ty was buckled tightly in the stroller and kambel understood to stand where she was and not to move, kadence had maneuvered herself to the far end of the room, placed herself on the floor and wrapped her arms around the computer chair and held on for dear life. great. i make my way over, tell her it is okay, remember what daddy said and begin prying her fingers off the chair. the whole situation was rather irritating, but i was laughing. hard. i must have been out of my mind, but i was laughing!! i get kadence in my arms and, well, all hell broke loose. she began to hit me in my face. wow. i could not stop laughing. she has never hit me. i totally should have reacted differently, but i was just beyond control at this point - sick isn't it. once i gained control of myself, i told kadence that we are lying down and getting the shots and leaving. right before i laid her down, crying and shaking like a leaf, out of desperation she said "wait! wait! looooook!" she was flexing her muscle - just like her daddy said. sorry chick, didn't work. expecting an even more dramatic experience with the actual shots that was about to occur, the nurse pinned her legs down and i held her upper body (the shots to go into the thighs) and..... nothing. not even a sound. she was a champ! the anticipation prior to was a killer for her. and for me to, black eyes to prove it (just kidding).