Preschool Check-up

Today we met with the public health nurse for a little check-up for Little Fox. It was his pre-kindergarten ear/eye/speech test. The sight test was the typical chart test, but with shapes instead of letters. He had 20/20 in each eye (poor thing, that will change in time!). The hearing test consisted of wearing a set of headphones and waving at us when he heard the tone. He got each and every one on the lowest setting. The last "test" was a flip book of pictures, and he had to say the word. The words incorporated all the different sounds, like L, R, th, sh. She said he passed all tests with flying colours, and was impressed that he could read the word "yes" as the end of the flip book.

Then came the "bad" news. He needed 4 immunizations. He was on track based on the Nova Scotia program, but in PEI they give HepB shots to babies and preschoolers, where as in NS they do it once they reach school age. So we chose to do one HepB shot and the MMRV (measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox) today, and he'll get the other 2 in 5 months. His last needles were when he was 2-ish, so he didn't really know what to expect. The look on his face was pure shock, and then he cried, but only for about a minute. The nurse was awesome and was super quick about it. She then distracted him with a cool tractor sticker, and he was then free to go play on the slide in the waiting room.

Then we took him for ice cream. :)