On Valentine's Day, Charlotte was invited to a Princess Tea Party by some of her other little girlfriends. She was very excited to wear her pink princess dress, silver shoes, jewelry, and wand to the party. (Her crown was broken, but fortunately she was so excited about the party that she forgot about it.)
Casting a spell
Charlotte is really into dressing up and becoming more interested in makeup and jewelry recently. A few days ago, Charlotte asked me if she could wear earrings like Mommy. I told her no, not until she is twelve. (I randomly picked that age. I am not sure at what point I will take her to get her ears pierced, but it won't be anytime soon.) Today, at church, she suddenly turned to me and said, "I'm twelve now! I wear earrings!" Nice try, Cha-Cha.
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Ha! Cate is always so interested when I'm putting lip gloss on that twice I've found myself saying, "You can wear lip gloss when you're 4." By which I mean chapstick, and I have no idea how that age came to me.
Ariel,
I was searching for my GF's blog and came across your interesting one. Started reading about your girlie-girl similar to my dd at age 3. I had to laugh when she asked you for earrings and you told her 12. Mom, your dd wants to be like her mommy, i.e., hair, pretty clothes and yes, "earwigs." When I read it, it reminded me of a situation with Sandi, aged 3. When I told her to ask daddy about earrings, he casually said yes, but didn't quite understand she was asking for having her ears pierced now. I had to tell her she wasn't old enough too. That lasted about a month until her baby girl cousin, aged 6 mos showed up for a visit with cute little gold balls in each ear! Again, she wanted to know why her baby cousin had earrings and she didn't? Dh chimed in and wanted to know too ): He kept telling his sister how cute her dd, Amelia, looked with earrings. In fact he strongly hinted he wanted our dd's ears pierced soon as well. The pressure was one now and the cards stacked against me. As an out, I told dh that I would ask our ped. Well, I didn't expect what happened next.
Our ped actually encouraged me to go ahead saying it was best when mommy could care for them. She said it have become more popular to pierce newborns, infants and little girls ears because is safer with the newer ear piercing instruments than the traditional methods of using a needle, thread by the mother or grandmother. She gave me some suggestions for moms having their dd's ears pierced and I put them away figuring I could buy some more time before taking her to have them pierced.
One day, dh calls out to me from the family room asking me to come in there. Our dd had gotten a pair of my earrings and was asking dh how to put them in her ears! She almost put one in her ear canal! Dh laughed and told me to take her to have them pierced before we had to take her to the ER to remove an earring! At this point, I was ready and told dh I started seeing other little babies including two in church nursery and another little girl in our playgroup. I finally realized how cute our little toddler would look with cute earrings and yielded to pressure.
I'd say if you've remotely thought about having the other girls ears pierced, then your mommy intuition is telling now is better. Write me an e-mail for our ped's tips if you'd like them.
Taking care of both wasn't that hard and she even looked more girlie-girl with earrings. They were so feminine on her. Good luck in putting your dd off, but don't be suprised if she continues to bring the topic up. After all, there is nothing wrong with her wanting to look like her mommy :)
Angie
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