Grandma has an old Jurrassic Park T-Rex with a bite out of the side from when her kids were little. Henry LOVES it. It was the whole reason Santa brought him such a big, nice T-Rex for Christmas. He's just obsessed with it (Grandma's) and yesterday, Grandma let him borrow it for a little while. What a lucky boy. On an unrelated note, he woke up this morning with pink eye, so we got him into the doctor as quickly as we could. While packing up to go, he asked if he could bring his "fwiends" (a set of Nemo's friends that Aunt Amy got him) and his "Grandma din-saur". On the way to the doctor, he kept saying over and over, "Enny have boo-boo, din-saur have boo-boo, mommy no have boo-boo, Dordee (Dory) no have boo-boo, little one Pearl no have boo-boo, little one Squirt no have boo-boo, big one shark no have boo-boo." Then he'd start over with "Enny." When we got into the exam room, he showed the nurse that his dinosaur had a boo-boo and she reacted appropriately dismayed. It was cute. Then the doctor came in, did her usual exam on Henry (during which she exclaimed no less than a half dozen times how good he was, even going so far as to ask him if he wanted to come back and teach her other patients how to behave during an exam), and went to leave the room to get his paperwork. When he realized she was going, he shouted, "no! 'Top, doctor!" and he shoved his dinosaur at her. The dinosaur had a boo-boo, too, you see, so he needed to make sure the doctor checked him out, too. Because, as he learned at the ER when we thought he broke his wrist, doctors make us feel better and fix our boo-boos. And what a lovely doctor she is. She assessed the dinosaur and decided that he needed a "big one bay-bay" [band-aid], so she went and got one and bandaged him up. Henry was VERY pleased. And so is mommy because our boy truly believes that doctors make you feel better. I'm going to write the doctor a thank you note because it was just such a kind thing to do and I really think it helped reinforce that going to the doctor is good and not always scary and full of shots.
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