Sunday, May 29, 2016
Growing Up
This sweet, first baby girl of mine is growing up. Sometimes it feels scary and overwhelming at the great honor and responsibility we've been given to love, mold and nurture the lives of not only one, but three beautiful little princesses. These are the words I've been speaking into my girls this year. Powerful, true, life-giving words of self-love and the greater love found in their King. I pray this knowledge will sink deep into their hearts, take root and grow!
Aria got her ears pierced. "It didn't even hurt," she said. Gah. So big.
Princess school. Parts of a flower.
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Love reading your blog and adventures of your family. Read about your oldest, Aria, wanting her ears pierced and doing so well. When I read it, it reminded me of a situation with both our girls, Sandi, aged 3 and her younger sister, Missy, aged 14 mos.
ReplyDeleteWell, when our ODD wanted her ears pierced, we agreed when she asked. What caught us off guard one day was Sandi wanted to know why her baby sister couldn't have earrings too. I tried to explain to her she didn't ask for them like she did and wasn't old enough. she as happy with explanation until her baby girl cousin, aged 12 mos showed up for a visit with cute little gold balls in each ear! Again, she wanted to know why she had earrings and her sister didn't. My SIL said all the girls in her family have earrings by their first birthday or soon thereafter. I was still unsure about doing Missy at a little over 2 years old and since she hadn't formally asked for them like Sandi.
Well,I asked our ped about having Missy's ears pierced as a toddler since I'd heard this wasn't the best time to do it. She said, with safer methods of ear piercing, doing it early when mommy could care for them was best. I was surprised at her response and told her I would think about it.
Well, when Missy broke into my jewelry box and brought my husband, my pearl stud earrings wanting him to put them in her ears, she told us she wanted "earwigs like her big sister." Rick said to go ahead and get Missy's done too before we had to take her to the ER to remove MY earrings from her
ear canal. Finally, I began seeing babies like their cousin and little girls with cute earrings in the church nursery, asking their moms and hearing postive responses for care and happiness over their decision to do it early. I yielded to pressure from my 3 yr old, husband and Missy's words and actions realizing she wanted her ears pierced too.
Don't know if you'd considered having your younger dd's ears pierced now or she is in love with her older siblings earrings. However, Sandi was so proud of her baby sister getting earrings too and held her hand while she had it done. SoO cute. This Easter, I put pearls in my two girls and wore mine of course too. Best part was watching the girls stare at the mirror saying "pretty!" It was priceless! Both girls looked adorable in their Easter pics with little pearls like mommy. They never had problems with healing or other issues.
I'd say if you've remotely thought doing your youngest daughter, then your mommy intuition may be telling now is better and I'd say go ahead so both girls look cute!
Amy
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