Getting pierced ears

This is Tatiana snuggling with her Daddy this morning.   Her foot is on Yogi.   She kept popping up to go to the bathroom or start heating her breakfast.   She'd tell Scotland, "Don't Move."   I told him "The sacrifices you make".    

 Tatiana and I got our ears pierced this afternoon.   First we picked out our earrings.  She picked out some pink sparkly heart ones.  I picked out some clear sparkly heart ones.  All the choices were nice.
I got them pierced first.  They had two ladies doing it simultaneously.   I tried super hard to not flinch or anything.  I succeeded, but it hurt worse than I remembered.   Tatiana was scared while waiting for her turn.   I held her hand.  They said On the count of 5, and then did it on three. 

This is Tatiana in the car.   I told her she could pick out one of the fancy lollipops that they had at the front.   I remembered mom and I going to eat pie after my first bra, so I wanted her to have something special.  I also followed her around while she looked at Halloween decorations.  The lollipop is Strawberry Banana and she said is tastes just like she would have thought.  

The afternoon between ear piercing and the first 4H meeting was good.  She whimpered occasionally when an earring was accidentally touched.   But, she seemed to totally not regret getting them pierced.   I think the fact that the earrings were cute, sparkly and pink helped. 

The 4H meetings were great.  They didn't get to play with Legos at the 4H Lego Robotics meeting, but they did get to play games.  We had to leave an hour early to go to Dance.  That was a disaster.   First, it was bring a friend free day.  She invited Macy and her mom hasn't responded to texts.  So, she didn't have a friend.  Also, I had been confused and I thought she was supposed to wear a costume.  She wasn't.   Also, she didn't have her tights.  So, I had to run home and get tights.  After dance we went to the sewing meeting.   I'd left the sewing machine there since I knew we'd be late and it was in the same room as the Lego Meeting.  Patty had my sewing machine setup, and that was nice.  Tatiana showed off her sewing machine knowledge.    The meeting was really nice and also productive.  The sewing machines were setup around the room at various tables and Kristen and Tatiana shared a table.  The girls first sewed on a piece of fabric with lines marked on it that they were supposed to follow.  That was good practice for Tatiana since she hadn't done curved lines before.   Then they made a 'Camp Caddy'.   Basically something with little pockets for shampoo, combs, etc.  They finished theirs and loved it.   I'll post photos from the meetings later.