New Earrings!

You'll remember my post about Hailey getting her ears pierced not too long ago, well the required 6 weeks went by and she was counting the days until she could pull out her studs and change her earrings for the first time.  We even had the day circled in red marker on our calendar so she could see it and I wouldn't have to keep answering the "how many more days now mom?" question.

She was so excited to wear the feather earrings Aunt Kylie bought her right before she got her ears pierced and there was nothing that was going to stand in the way of her wearing those the very first day - regardless of whether it was church or not!  She had her outfit all picked out and we had made sure that it at least matched her fun and vibrant earrings.  Her studs were a little difficult to get out and I think that her ears weren't quite healed or had healed to the earrings, so we caused a little bit of discomfort and actually made them bleed.  I told her we probably needed to put her studs back in and wait a little longer, but to her, that was just NOT AN OPTION!  So we put the feathers in and hoped for the best.  She was so happy.

Yes, these earrings are definitely not ones I would have chosen, so it's good she has fun aunts to encourage her to be bright and vibrant.  Did I mention that I am quite the conservative?  Well, if not, then let me just say that I am so conservative I actually tried to talk her out of wearing these to church and I wasn't even the one wearing them!  She didn't listen to me though.

I do have to admit that they were so cute on her though.  Could be that it was just her smiling and beaming the whole day, but she was beautiful!

Unfortunately, after another day of having issues, we decided that we needed to let her ears heal just a bit long and we put the studs back in for a few more weeks.  Her ears were really sore and I think she was glad to do it.  But she was satisfied because she had had 2 days of new and fun earrings and she now knew what it was like to change them.  So far we are taking better care to rotate them and clean them (we thought we were doing it correctly before, but obviously not), so hopefully in another week or so we'll give it another try.  She's so happy about just having her ears pierced that she doesn't seem to care if she has to wait a few more weeks.  She's happy and so excited whenever she talks about them or notices them in the mirror - and that just makes me smile!