Maria has been pestering us to let her have her ears pierced. We’ve talked about it a lot and threw around some ideas: Maybe for her 6th birthday. Or, maybe for Uncle Jeff’s wedding.
Well, when we showed up at Grandma’s on Saturday afternoon, Uncle Mike, Aunt Kim, Paige, Kristen and Matt were there. The subject came up again and with a houseful of women encouraging a positive answer, Dan caved and agreed to let Maria have it done. We decided to make it a girl thing, so on Saturday afternoon Aunt Anne, Maria and I headed to the mall and met up with Aunt Kim and Paige.
During all the discussions we’ve had, I told Maria it would hurt, but just for a second and she said she could handle that. She was sure. On Sunday, after the trauma of the night before, I told her “compared to that, you probably won’t even notice.” I guess I understated it just a bit.
She was all happy, ready to go, enjoying the attention from all of us, but when those earrings were shot through her ears, she BURST into tears. Poor baby!
Thank goodness they did them at the same time, or I’d have a daughter with just one earring!
Of course, she’s thrilled now and loves to preen for anyone that asks.
Too bad everyone at school is going to be too busy noticing her forehead injury to see the earrings.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Alexandra // Feb 16, 2009 at 10:30 pm
She looks beautiful. That wound is still making me nauseated.
2 morethananelectrician // Feb 16, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Her pain threshold has to be through the roof right now…WHEW!!!!!
3 Laura // Feb 16, 2009 at 10:53 pm
maria is such a beautiful girl! that picture is priceless!
4 Gwen // Feb 17, 2009 at 11:37 pm
I’ll be on the lookout for some Fany-Nancy-like earrings. This is what rocks about being a girl–we can survive injury better than the boys and still look fabulous!
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