Our Brave Little Girl!

Poor Samantha has had a very traumatic day! She had her 12 month Dr visit. It went very well, until...that's right, you guessed it! SHOTS! She had to get five of them today! Poor girl, one of the nurses hit a blood vessel with one of them so it started to bruise instantly! Then the Dr. informed us that she needed to get a blood draw to check her iron levels and stuff. We went to the lab at the hospital where she started crying and hanging on to me as if her life depended on it as soon as she saw the lady in scrubs! (She knew what was coming!) The poor lab tech. felt so bad and missed the vein on her first try because Sam was stronger than she expected. So, we had to wrap her in a towel and it took three of us to hold her still while she did the blood draw on the other arm. I was almost in tears watching the pain in her eyes. All total SEVEN needles in one day(more like one hour)! She is such a trooper though and was happy that they gave her a coupon for free ice cream at the cafeteria, even though she cried when the nice cafeteria lady tried to give the ice cream to her because she was wearing scrubs. Now this afternoon Mommy has a Dr. appointment but luckily Daddy is coming too! On the positive side she is growing very well! She weighed 20 lbs, 10 oz. and is (get ready for this) 30.5 in. tall! I can't believe that just over a year ago she weighed 7lbs, 13 oz and was exactly ten inches shorter at 20.5 in long!