We told her back at her 4th birthday that we would allow her to get her ears pierced whenever she was ready but she would have NOTHING to do with it! Emma Claire is terrified of needles so the thought of them piercing her ears with a needle was out of the question. She told us that she would get them pierced when she was old. : ) BUT, after the ordeal of her flu shot she completely did a 360. She decided that since the flu shot didn't hurt at all then she wanted to get her ears pierced right away! The only problem was that Benjamin was out of town. I talked her into waiting until he got home and RaRa and PePaw were here for Thanksgiving. I told her that I needed someone else to hold the camera because I wanted a video of her experience. After that she talked about it for days and days and days!! We even pulled up Claire's website and she picked out the perfect pair of earrings for her big day. She could. not. wait. until the day she got to get them pierced.
Once mom and dad arrived for Thanksgiving we planned to take her after church on Sunday to Claire's. On the way to the mall she all of a sudden decided that she wanted to change her mind! She said that it was going to hurt and she didn't want to go through with it. We talked back and forth about it for a minute until I told her that if she didn't do it now then we were gonna wait a while before we talked about it again. It's just too far for us to drive to change our mind at the last minute. It was very funny because the minute I told her she would have to wait her demeanor completely changed and she was ready to go!
Once we got inside the mall and I got the paperwork filled out she jumped right up in that chair like a big girl!
It took them a few minutes to make sure everything was straight and then she was ready to go!
I could not believe how brave she was. When the ladies were getting ready to put the earrings in I reach for Emma Claire's hands and asked her if she wanted to hold my hands while they did it and her reply was, "No, I don't want anybody to touch me." This girl cracks me up! She sat there so prim and proper the whole time with her legs crossed.
When the time came to actually pierce her ears they counted to three and then shot the little guns. I expected this big scream or tears but I got nothing! She flinched a bit, gave me a hug, and then was ready to go pick out a new pair of earrings for Christmas.
Aren't they so cute?!? Click Here to watch the video.
Do you think she was a little proud of her new earrings?!
After she was done picking out her earrings we got another special treat by visiting Santa at the mall! We don't do Santa at our house but it's still a treat to go see the 'man dressed up in the red suit'. : 0
It sure was a treat for Emma Claire but not so much for Camp.... He is scared to death of anything dressed up in a suit. I tried sitting in the picture with him but he kept pushing Santa'ts hand off my shoulder. I guess we will be putting Disney off for a while! : )
Benjamin caught this cute picture on the right of Emma Claire whispering to Santa what she would like to get from Mommy and Daddy for Christmas.
What a fun day!
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