Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Shots

The Dragon Boss got two needles almost as long as his thickening thighs stuck into each of them yesterday. He shrieked like he'd just been stabbed twice, but calmed down when he was sitting upright back in Baleen's arms, his favorite position in his favorite place.

Ten minutes later he was deep asleep in the stroller exhausted from the worry about the shots. Baleen could have used a nap, too. She distracted herself during the vaccinations by looking at nothing in particular on her iPhone.

Wood Duck told Baleen that way back when, almost 34 years ago in that little apartment outside Stuttgart, that I had had a very rough night when I got my shots so Baleen and I were prepared for a long one. Happily, the Dragon Boss was asleep when I got home from soccer at 8.30pm and only woke once during the night around 2am before the second set of mild whimpers began around 5.30am. But no shrieks of pain from the Dragon Boss, he was just looking for some help in finding his pacifier.

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