Sophia's Earpiercing Moment

Prize for getting your ears pierced???? A purple lollipop!!!!

this picture really should be last....but we are new to the whole blogging thing so you will just half to figure it out yourselves....but that won't be a problem because all of our friends are geniuses....did I spell that right?:)



almost ready!


cleaning the ear lobes....look at the uncertainty in her eyes!!

Claire's girl explaining how it will work to a very worried girl!

A very proud little girl!

During our Fall Break I babysat the 3 children who spent the summer with us. They are such wonderful children and we enjoyed having them back for a couple of days while school was out. The 2 girls are 8 &7 and both have their ears pierced. Apparently they talked to Sophia about it because at dinner she told me she wanted to get her ears pierced and that she wanted to do it soon before she got "creeped out" and didn't want to do it anymore. So we decided to go that evening to the mall so she could be like her friends:) She actually has talked about getting them pierced but was just scared of the pain involved. This is the girl who CRIES everytime we need to take her to the doctor because she is scared of a finger prick....the girl who KICKS when that is to be done and is usually held down by mom and a nurse as they extract the blood! She did better the last time we were there but she still let us all know she didn't like it!! Anyway....back to the ear piercing.....so we meet Dad at Claire's(he was at his choir practice) around 730pm. She picks out the pair she wants-her birthstone-and I fill out all the paperwork. Then we sit in the chair and the lady explains what will happen. First she will clean her ears with an alcohol wipe and then mark the lobe with a purple marker. This involved NO pain but you would think it did because it took Fia some time to relax her shoulders so this could happen!! Once we got the marks where we wanted them the lady loaded the "gun" and then the crying started. It was so sad because you knew Fia WANTED this done but she physically couldn't relax! No amount of coaxing or guilt trips from the Claire's staff or bribes would make her relax! So after about 10 minutes we took a break and sat out in the food court. She cried for about 10 more minutes lamenting how she didn't want to go home without them pierced and how she just couldn't do it....blah, blah, blah. But eventually she calmed down enough, we said a little prayer and tried again. I was expecting to go home with her lobes still whole but you wouldn't believe how brave she got! She held the "gun", saw how it worked, sat tall and still and before she (and I ) knew it she had November birthstones in her ears!! We were all so proud of her and I think she was the most proud of herself!!