Sugar & Spice: Girlie Girl

I'm pretty sure as long as I can remember your Daddy and I have said, "If we have a girl, we want her to be ALL girl!" Hairbows, lots of pink, covered in jewelry, shopping loving little girl! So of course it was no surprise that when I took you for your 9 month check up and saw the big "Want your ears pierced? Let your Pediatrician do it the safe and painless way!" I was all over that. I did my research about pain, infection, recommended age, etc. (Of which if anyone is wondering, Pediatrician do not recommend ear piercing before the age of 6 months) Since you were of age, I went ahead and asked the nurse then about when we could do it. Since you were getting shots that day, I didn't want to put you through it, plus that gave me a chance to run it by your Daddy, first ;)

Life got crazy and I never got the opportunity to go back to the Pediatrician's office until now. Brother was at school, which was good, but they only do ear piercings on Thursday...and that meant Daddy would have to work :( I just didn't know how it would go, and I didnt want to do it all by myself! So, I called our favorite babysitter and friend, Kristin aka "Yaya" She is getting her degree in early childhood education, so I thought this might even be a good experience/observation for her :) She was thrilled to be able to go with us.

So our instructions were to get to the office an hour before your appointment because they put numbing cream on your lobes so that you wont feel a thing...and it needs an hour to work its magic. So we went in, picked out your little diamonds, and they put on the cream - along with tape over it so that you wouldn't touch it - and then we went to go kill an hour by eating breakfast.

We arrived back to office right at our 10:00am appointment and literally within 10 minutes you had precious little earrings without shedding a tear...well, sort of. You did cry, but not because of the piercing. When the nurse put the tape on your ears, she got your hair in the tape. You had a minor temper tantrum when she pulled off the tape...so we had to give you a snack and milk so you'd calm down. They marked your ears and then pierced them. That easy.