Cara Gets Her Ears Pierced

I have always known if I had any children get their ears pierced I would be so excited, but it would NOT happen at Claire's. I knew I'd be more than happy to take them to an actual piercing place and not even consider Claire's.

Fast forward to having 3 daughters later and I can't tell you how many times I've walked my kids past a Claire's to show them the "free piercing" signs to see if they'd want it done. I still wouldn't have done it there, but I was really trying to get them to be intrigued. After many of these "tricky trips" and them having NO interest in it, I told Larry a few months ago I didn't think any of them would want to get it done. Cara didn't seem interested. I'm sure Gwen would be interested until she heard it hurt. Lucy would only do it if her sisters did. So I had a feeling it just wasn't going to happen.

Then, to my surprise, one day last week Cara mentioned she wanted it done and I was SO excited. I was brushing her hair and she said she kind of wanted decoration for her ears. I told her we could get it done, but I wanted her to think about it for a bit. I knew Larry wouldn't love it and would think I brought it up, so I had her tell him by herself. He wasn't thrilled, like I knew, but I think he liked that I told her to wait and think about it.

Originally, we were going to have it done Saturday, but when Saturday came she was feeling a bit nervous. She then said "Monday. After school. I'll be ready!" so I found a place nearby and made the appointment. She was SO excited. Gwen wanted to come see, but there was a note saying other kids couldn't come. She then said "I have a good idea! Why not take a video?" so I told her I would do that, as long as the piercer was okay with it.

Once I was done with work Cara and I headed out. Luckily, it was really close. The studio itself was REALLY small. It also took the lady quite a bit of time to get everything set up. But I know it's worth it when they are trying to make things sanitary. They also use hollow needles, rather than the gun. It was crazy, because once she pushed it through, the only reason I knew it went through was because Cara flinched. It seemed to slide in really easily. She did tear up for a second, but then was just really excited. She picked out some gold hearts and she absolutely loves them.

The little tears!

Afterwards, we all went out to Froyo as family (which was really because Cara had it 100% in her learning app and Lucy wanted it as her monthly treat coupon from Christmas, but piercing and celebrating as family works too).

She was excited Afterwards

She's SO excited to reach the 6 week mark to put in different earrings, I know so many people are going to want to get her more for Christmas so I'm trying to decide if I should too, or maybe just get her an earring holder. With how much I'm sure she'll get that might be more useful haha.