The Price You Pay for Beauty!

It has been quite sometime that Claire has been obsessed with earrings. It started last summer with her pulling mine out of my ears and then we moved on to sticker earrings. Lately it has been daily requests for "get my ears pierced Daddy".

So I talked to the manager at Claire's(no my child is not named after a made in China jewelry store), and she said that it would be best if they did both of them at the same time and suggested what time of day would be best.

Yesterday Frank and I were painting the playroom and Claire woke up before we finished so we decided that I would take her to get her ears pierced while Frank finished up. We had explained to her that it would be like getting a shot in her ears and it would hurt but she was so excited and didn't care about that. She was a little chatterbox all the way there.

Then we got there and she was still excited. sat in the chair and then they said "We're going to draw on your ear". Ok so let's rewind, she just had somebody "draw" on her back about 30 times and then proceed to torture her in her mind. So this is what she thinks is getting ready to happen. The manager at Claire's was trying to convince her that she wasn't the doctor and even let Claire draw on her face to show her that it didn't hurt. This was the most traumatic part. After they actually pierced her ears she cried for a second and then she was over it. Ecstatic that she had earrings and then I let her pick something out in the store. We left with a Beauty and the Beast bracelet and two mini bottles of nail polish. She checked herself out in every mirror and told everybody in the store that she got hers ears pierced. Such a diva. Oh but the story doesn't end here.

When it was time for her to go to bed last night she couldn't get comfortable and had a mini meltdown and said she didn't want to sleep in her earrings. I then proceeded to tell her that she couldn't take them out and she laid down and went right to sleep.

What next you say? Well she asked Frank for a bra last night after dinner.