Monthly Meeting #2

On the agenda for this evening’s meeting… Halloween and flu shots.

When The Wife first asked Penny about dressing up for Halloween, she didn’t seem to understand what that even meant.  We don’t want to step on any toes, religious or otherwise, so we will be asking permission from the kids’ parents to dress them up and take them out on Halloween.  I don’t think it will be a big deal, because maybe they were just too young in previous years, as she would have just turned 3 and he would only have been 18 months last year.  But we’ll see.

Flu shots are the bigger issue this time around.  We already know that the kids are un-vaccinated… but we’re hoping that the flu shot will not be the same.  The Wife and I will be getting ours soon enough, but it’s much more important for little kids to get it.  Leonard and Penny go to daycare and are around so many other kids every day, it’s in the best interest of everyone to get a flu shot.  That obviously doesn’t mean that it will happen, or that the other kids at daycare will get them, but the flu can get bad.  It can get really bad for kids Leonard’s age.  Having a sick little kid that is miserable is bad enough… but having a sick little kid in the hospital would be even worse.

My guess is that we’ll get permission for Halloween, but not flu shots… which is too bad really.  Don’t get me wrong, while I think chicken pox is a rite of passage for kids, I do not feel the same about polio.