It doesn't get any easier

I took Grace for her 4-year old check up today. I'd been warned by quite a few moms that the shots at that appointment are a killer. And yes, they are. And I discovered that watching your child get shots doesn't get any easier as they get older. Grace certainly cries a lot - sometimes fake, sometimes tired, sometimes angry. But that last shot today made her cry with pain, which brought tears to my eyes. You don't see your child cry from actual pain too much (at least I don't with Grace - danger-boy Alex may end up being another story), and it just killed me to see it happen.

But big girl that she is, she sat there and took the shots with tears but without squirming. I'm proud of her. Even though she then said her legs her so much the rest of the day that she needed to be carried everywhere. Well, she's only about 6 pounds heavier than Alex so I'm used to it.