About 2 years ago I was in Wal-mart with Hadlee and we heard a girl screaming. Not just screaming like she wanted a toy her mom wouldn't buy her, screaming like she was being tortured and killed right there in the supercenter. Hadlee was very upset about it and asked what was wrong with the little girl. I told her that she was getting her ears pierced and it didn't seem to be going very well. I think that moment has haunted her.
We have asked her numerous times, when presented with the opportunity, if she wanted to get her ears pierced and the answer has always been a very sure "NO." Until yesterday. We were at the mall and I asked her and she said yes. Luckily we had the camera or we might have had to call the whole thing off. She seemed really nervous about it while we were waiting, and I told her a few times she didn't have to get it done.
She kept saying that her friends said it didn't really hurt. I explained to her, that maybe her friends didn't remember, but it was going to hurt a bit. It would feel like a shot in her ear. Even though she was nervous, she did a great job.
Marks on the ears and waiting for holes. She didn't want to hold my hand.
The shock
The second ear she wanted to hold my hand
Calvin hanging out by the earrings. A couple times he yelled, "Ma, look, hurt ears." He still wanted to have it done after Hadlee was finished though. He kept trying to get us to let him get in the chair.
Finished and a treat to ease the pain.
Feeling good in the food court.
He will just have to pretend he has holes in his ears, because he isn't getting an earring anytime soon.
I have mixed emotions about it. Part of me wonders if we should have let her get her ears pierced now. If you pierce their ears too soon, are they more likely to end up with earrings up and down their ears and a nose ring, or was that just me? Part of me, though, is really proud of her for deciding she wanted to do something and doing it even though it was scary. After it was done she said, "I thought I was going to change my mind, but then I remembered I wanted to be pretty and cute."
Not sure I agree with the motive. She has always been pretty and cute to me, but I am her mama.
We have asked her numerous times, when presented with the opportunity, if she wanted to get her ears pierced and the answer has always been a very sure "NO." Until yesterday. We were at the mall and I asked her and she said yes. Luckily we had the camera or we might have had to call the whole thing off. She seemed really nervous about it while we were waiting, and I told her a few times she didn't have to get it done.
She kept saying that her friends said it didn't really hurt. I explained to her, that maybe her friends didn't remember, but it was going to hurt a bit. It would feel like a shot in her ear. Even though she was nervous, she did a great job.
Marks on the ears and waiting for holes. She didn't want to hold my hand.
The shock
The second ear she wanted to hold my hand
Calvin hanging out by the earrings. A couple times he yelled, "Ma, look, hurt ears." He still wanted to have it done after Hadlee was finished though. He kept trying to get us to let him get in the chair.
Finished and a treat to ease the pain.
Feeling good in the food court.
He will just have to pretend he has holes in his ears, because he isn't getting an earring anytime soon.
I have mixed emotions about it. Part of me wonders if we should have let her get her ears pierced now. If you pierce their ears too soon, are they more likely to end up with earrings up and down their ears and a nose ring, or was that just me? Part of me, though, is really proud of her for deciding she wanted to do something and doing it even though it was scary. After it was done she said, "I thought I was going to change my mind, but then I remembered I wanted to be pretty and cute." Not sure I agree with the motive. She has always been pretty and cute to me, but I am her mama.
2 comments:
She is so cute, earrings or not! Way to go Hadlee for overcoming that fear! Ryan says no earrings for our girls till they are 14... {and no makeup till 16}. That is going to be a real "ouch". Leah already sticks those baby link toys on her ears to pretend. :) When does Hadlee get to start changing her earrings to coordinate with outfits, is she excited about that??
How fun! I thought they were supposed to have 2 people with the ear guns for the little kids so they didn't back out after the first?? Way to go Hadlee!! I can't wait until Sydney is old enough. I decided she has to be old enough to ask, then I will be all for it!
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