This little piggie

As states go, New Jersey is definitely at the bottom of my list. Our county held its first swine flu vaccination clinic on monday for children ages 6months to 5 years. No pediatricians' offices could get the shot, so there was no other choice. The clinic was scheduled to start at 4pm. We arrived at 3:45 and got in line two blocks away.

at the start of our wait:

We were done at 6:10. Aaron was great, considering. We were standing in front of some really nice people, who gave us snacks (Aaron had finished his bag of goldfish and his milk in the first 30 minutes) and loaned us a fleece for him to wear when the sun went down and it got cold. I couldn't help but feel that we were participating in something akin to the polio vaccinations of the 1950's. There were so many people! There were health dept officials with bullhorns! When we finally got inside, he got the shot, which took two seconds. Luckily, all was forgotten when he received his lollipop ("lalalop"). Ahhh, candy, the fixer of everything.