Ear Piercing... Much more dramatic for this mama than it was for the girls! ("Catch Up Series")

I am a teacher and what could be more fun than getting two baby girls' ears pierced during Spring Break?.?... Turns out, ANYTHING else! Haha! I knew since before the girls were even born that I wanted to get their ears pierced while they were young babies.  You know, so "they don't feel anything", "they don't remember it hurting" and so "they don't mess with the earrings".  All of these reasons and more are great, in theory.  The funny thing... I will remember the pain and their tears afterwards!  Truth be told when I knew the time was quickly approaching, the girls were over 4 months old by the time we pierced their ears, I got more and more nervous.  I was trying to figure out where to take the girls, what kind of prep I needed to know for before the piercings and then afterwards also.  

Of course I took one last picture of their little ears sans earrings during their early morning nap before we headed to the ENT!

My older sister, Paige, and my mom were able to go with us, thanks to God!  There is NO way that I could have... WOULD have done this by myself!  They definitely did their best to keep ME calm and hold it together! LOL

Sweet little girls are ready to go!  I, on the other hand, was a nervous wreck!  I was nervous for them but also for me!  It really got to me, thinking that this was ME inflicting pain onto them!  

 

It's go time!  Our ENT, Dr. Hatch, was amazing!  He was great with the girls as far as the piercings, of course, but just personality wise also!  I treated this appointment just like a doctor's appointment that we were expecting shots at.  I brought breast milk in bottles, ready to pop in their mouths immediately after! :)  It worked like a charm, although, the girls did better than any of us expected!  Dr. Hatch was even pleasantly surprised!  The only point at which the girls cried and got upset with was when I had to literally press them tightly to my chest so he could pierce their ears!  As soon as he pierced them and I stopped holding them so tightly... they were fine!  They did not cry the rest of the time or even in the days to come!  They never gave me a hard time while I was cleaning and/or turning the earrings.  What wonderful angel babies!   

 

There is no way earrings could make my angel babies more precious or more gorgeous but they sure do make their little ears look girly and that's good enough! :)