Remember this little sweetie pie?
Well, she just turned SEVEN!
This year she celebrated with a special date with Daddy.
They went ice skating on Saturday . . .
and then out for lunch at the restaurant of Janae's choice: Subway. Notice that she opted for onions on her sandwich--definitely Daddy's girl in this way :)
After the Daddy date it was Mommy's turn. Janae had been asking and asking to get her ears pierced, and since I'd had mine done when I was seven, I thought it would be okay for Janae to do the same. Alaina, Janae and I went in together while the boys waited outside.
Janae chose her birthstone earrings--aquamarine. It just happens to be the perfect color for our girl who loves swimming . . . and ice palaces!
Our seven year old was very brave--she only said, "Ouch."
Yesterday was Janae's actual birthday. I picked her up for lunch, then after school she got to pick out her birthday cake--which ended up being a Chocolate Extreme Blizzard cake from DQ. I had to admit it was better than any cake I'd ever made :)
And the toy she really wanted--a Nerf bow and arrow--extended the festivities by arriving in the mail this morning. It was one day late, but I'm sure Janae will be pretty excited to come home from school and see it waiting for her!
It's fun to see Janae growing up and developing her tastes and personality. I'm sure seven will be a great year for her, too!
2 comments:
Onions on her sandwich?! Definitely not her mother's daughter!! That cake just about sent me down to DQ to pick one up for myself:) I'm glad that Janae had a good birthday...and that you didn't have to throw a "friends" party!!
I was searching for my GF's blog and came across your interesting one about with a great story about your daughter, having her ears pierced for her 7th Birthday.
When I read it, it reminded me of a situation with both our girls, one aged 5 and the other 3yr. When our ODD wanted her ears pierced, we agreed and she did great except for a few tears as expected. What I didn't anticipate happened.
Our oldest Sandi, wanted to know why her baby sister, Missy, couldn't have matching earrings too. I tried to explain to her she wasn't old enough until her baby girl cousin, aged 6 months 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 her little sister didn't.
I asked our pediatrician her advice and she encouraged me to go ahead and pierce our younger daughter's ears now since she showed me a picture of her 3yr daughter with little pearl earrings! I was surprised at her response and told her I would think about it. Her reasoning was when mommy cared for them, there was never any problems during the healing time, but when little girls wanted them, they often failed to care for them properly.
The tipping point came soon enough...one day, dh calls out to me from the family room asking me to come in there. Our daughter had gotten a pair of my pearl earrings and was asking daddy how to put them in her little sister's 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 beginning to warm up to the idea. Although I felt it a little early, I started seeing other little girls about Missy's age with pretty earrings in our church nursery. I finally realized how cute our little girl would look with cute earrings and yielded to pressure from daddy and my oldest girl.
I don't know if you'd considered having your younger daughter's ears pierced now, but after I did, my ODD was so proud her sister had earrings. It was so much easier than my ODD having it done with no angst or fear of any
pain. She was cried for 10 seconds. Needless, both girls looked adorable in their pictures with little pierced ears and never had problems.
I'd say if you've remotely thought about it, then your mommy intuition is telling now is better.
Amy
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