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ear piercing (cont)

This is in response to my sister's comment : Did she cry?
The answer is YES! I didn't finish the story cuz my blog was getting kinda long last time so here is the finished story:
M was really excited to get her ears pierced - all smiles and excited...a little nervous. We told her that it would be owies and that she had to do it twice, and she said ok. She was ready, she knew it was gonna hurt - twice - but she wanted it any way. She sat on J's lap like a trooper, a little nervous of the lady going to pierce her ears. All smiles. The lady takes the piercing gun to M's ear, M holding still and turning her head for her...and pow! She looks over at me, droops her head, her whole face goes upside down, and just melts! She started to cry, but we reminded her that she had to do it again, so she stayed in J's lap and turned her head for the other ear, crying the whole time. The lady takes the gun to her ear and pow again, and M starts crying harder, but the lady can't pull the gun back - why?? Because the earing didnt' go all the way throuh and it was stuck. So here's this lady trying to pull the gun and the earing away, and all M wants to do is get away! She finally gets it off and I tell M that it didn't work and she cries more and is trying to get down and I tell her we have to do it one more time and she says "no. all done! no."
I help hold her hands out of the way...the lady is appologizing, you can tell she feels bad, and I turn M's head and pow, again. And the earing went crooked and didn't go in all the way, so M is crying harder! I take her and hug her and comfort her (and I totally feel like crap!) and tell her, "Baby, we have to do it one more time."and sit her back on J's lap (yes that was planned...i so was not going to be the one holding her down for this.) And this time M is trying to get down and puts her hand up to her ear when the lady comes back with a new gun, and I pull her hand down, and pow, again, but this time it works and we were out of there.
Now my child is scarred and doesn't want our hand near her ears, she doesn't even like for me to tuck her hair behind her ears now, and she cries every time we clean her earrings. I know it's not hurting her, she's just scared, and she even says so....so...I still feel like crap, but she really loves them.

Comments

M said…
OMG: Why did you do that to her? Couldn't she have just been a pirate?

What a horrible story! BTW: If you had TOLD me you were going to get her pierced I would have TOLD you about how they can do them at the SAME TIME so there is only 1 POW!
February 18, 2009 at 11:50 AM
erin said…
Holy tragedy! It's a good thing she loves those pretty "red" earrings.

Learning early that beauty is pain.
February 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Amber said…
Ok so I have to apologize because I realized I wrote a comment about the wrong person. I know John very well from High school and he's one of my great friends. The comment I wrote previously was about my friend Travis from elementary school and for some reason they look alike so when I starting writing the comment, in my head it was Travis I was writing about. I know weird. Anyway, tell John hello for me. He was probably confused if you showed him my last comment ha ha. Anyway, it's amazing how much they remind of each other. It's crazy! But John I hope you are doing well! I really know you I promise ha ha. Anyway, just wanted to apologize and sort out all the confusion
February 25, 2009 at 5:00 PM
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