My birthday week came to an end on Friday evening when Jon and myself (along with our small group from church and my mom and step dad) attended "Love Worth Fighting For" with Kirk Cameron, a marriage seminar. HERE It was awesome!
Saturday evening was spent with my dad, step-mom, younger sister, younger brother and his fiance at the Chinese buffet! We ate way too much and enjoyed every minute of it. My step-mom has started making jewelry and WOW, what beautiful stuff! As my birthday gift she let me pick out a few items from her collection. I will have to take a picture of the necklace and earrings I picked out! I can't wait to wear them and show off her talent. So as we were looking at her earrings Aliya announces to the group that she wants some too. I tried to explain to her that she doesn't have her ears pierced so she can't wear any of grandma Kris' earrings. She seemed satisfied with my answer and went about eating her dinner.
After dinner we were sitting around the table chatting and again Aliya announces that she wants earrings and that she wants to get her ears pierced, right now, tonight, on the way home. I told her to ask her father and winked at her. She slowly made her way over to where he was sitting and asked him if she could get her ears pierced. He told her to wait until she was four. Yeah right! Like that answer was going to fly with her. She had an agenda on her mind and she was set that it was going to happen that night. So she moved on to the next person, my little sister, Sheri. Now sweet kind Aunt Sheri, could she say no to that adorable little face??? Nope! We decided that we would just stop by the mall on the way home (just us girls) to price out ear piercing. I told Aliya we were just going to look. She told me "I'm ready mommy, I can do it". We went on to talk about how much it would hurt, like way worse than a shot. Confident that would scare her I thought she would drop the subject...
Oh no! Boy was I wrong. We pulled into the mall (an outdoor mall) and she squealed with excitement. My sister, Sheri, was caravaning behind me as we looked for parking spots near the store. Still trying to convince Miss Aliya it was going to hurt A LOT and maybe we should just look and ask questions tonight we found our spot. (Oh, I forgot to mention that little miss hadn't had a nap all day, so her emotions were intensified and in full swing this evening) As we entered the store her eyes lit up, much like mine do when I enter Starbucks. All the pretty jewelry was hers for the taking, but the only thing that she had her eyes on were the the earrings.
We went over and I spoke with the assistant manager about the cost and the procedure of getting a little one's ears pierced. After filling out a form and Aliya picking the starter set she wanted there was no turning back. She climbed up on the chair and helped herself to a sucker. You would have thought the child was 6 years old the way she sat there. Still, quiet and excited! One more time I asked her if she was sure and if she realized it was going to hurt, she said she was ready.
Below is how the rest of the event took place
Getting the purple dots on her ears to show where the earrings were going to go
Sitting still like a statue (the assistant manager's words, I don't think Aliya has a clue what a statue is, but she sat still like one)
Don't mind if I do, thanks! (as she helps herself to a sucker)At this point she still has no clue about how bad this is about to hurt. I am on my knees in front of her sitting on the floor. My palms are sweating and this is when I'm informed that this part is worse for the mom's, not the child.
OOOUUUCCCHHH!!!! She cried for about 45 seconds and that was it!
And we're back to the sucker! (which spent a few seconds in my hair while I was consoling her after the initial pain/shock)
"Cheese" All done!
Thanks Aunt Sheri for the belated birthday gift!! Sheri had said she would go in for part of the cost of the earrings (they aren't cheap!), but when we got up to pay she had already taken care of the bill! What an awesome gift!!
Once the initial shock of the whole ordeal set in I realized that Jon said Aliya needed to wait until she was four to do this. HOLY CRAP! What did I just do!?!? What was he going to say?!?! It's not like I could turn back the hands of time and take the earrings out! I knew he couldn't be upset with Aliya, but would he be upset with me for doing it anyway?! I got so caught up in the moment...how bad could it be, right? I shouldn't have been worried a bit, he LOVES them!! He told me later that he knew she'd come home with pierced ears and he wasn't upset in the least!!! (and exhale)
Aliya is doing a great job of leaving them alone and letting me clean and "twist them" several times a day! I'm so proud of her!!!
3 comments:
You do realize that now Ally is going to ask to have ears pierced, right? ;) Aliya looks beautiful!
How adorable. I wish I was that brave when I got mine pierced..and I was much older than her : o )
She looks adorable. She did a great job!!
Chey has been asking for pierced ears I told her maybe before kindergarden, we'll see (:
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