Apparently, Winton was supposed to have a 15 month check-up, at which he was supposed to receive booster vaccines. Ooops. Perhaps I missed that information when, a year ago at his 1 year visit, he screamed and clung to me like a squid trying to ingest my head while Clara simultaneously tried to dismantle the blood-pressure cuff hanging on the wall.
Winton did the same screaming squid routine yesterday and required two nurses plus me to hold him still for his long-overdue booster shots. Happily, despite cold, fever and goopy-eye last week, he is healthy.
Clara, on the other hand, has her first ear infection, and it's a DOUBLE one. It comes on the heels of a week of diaorrhea (we noticed the diaorrhea . . . it overshadowed our consideration of her suffering additional ailments in our conversations with the 24 hour on-call Dr. a few days ago). Apparently, seen in person, she's got grey tonsils too. Poor kid. At weigh-in, she is, after her week of illness, only 4 pounds heavier than her brother despite having two full years on him.
Heavily amoxicillin-ed she should now be napping, but is instead muttering at her brother to "stop it" as he repeats, gleefully, "Look! I did it!" Is there a phrase more worrying than "I did it!" from the mouth of a 2 year old?
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