A night I will never forget

Last night was a night that will go down in my book as a mom that I will never forget. Let me start from the beginning...since we moved to our Fruit Heights house, Cambree has struggled sleeping in her own bed. Yes, it's been one month shy of 12 months since we moved in. So I decided to give her an incentive. She's been asking to get her ears pierced for a little while now, so I decided if she sleeps in her bed for one whole week all by herself she can get her ears pierced. We tried it a couple weeks ago and she only made it two nights. I really didn't think she could do it.

Well this past week she slept in her bed for seven nights straight in her own bed. So a promise is a promise. We took her to get her ears pierced last night and on our way she said "This is the best day ever!" She was beyond excited.

We got there and they talked to her about it and she was still on-board for getting them pierced. That all changed once she got her first ear pierced. She cried and said she didn't want the other ear pierced. Well that wasn't going to work, I didn't want her looking like a pirate. So for the next 3 hours it was us trying over and over to get her to pierce her other ear. It really was the anticipation of knowing what was going to happen that she was afraid of. Her other ear that had already gotten pierced didn't hurt anymore, she just didn't like the gun they used to pierce her ear.

I, as well as other shoppers did EVERYTHING in our powers to convince her to get her other ear pierced. I had strangers showing her movie clips and singing her songs from the movie Frozen. Strangers gave her words of encouragement, telling her how they had gotten their ears pierced and how it didn't hurt anymore. Strangers held her hand. Strangers even tried holding her down to help me. It was beyond ridiculous. I bought her a pony, which got her ears pierced as well. The pony who was named Diamond was brave and didn't cry when she got her ears pierced. She watched another girl get her ears pierced. And in the end, the store closed with us inside. I put up my flag of defeat and left with a crying three year old as well as a crying 31 year old. We were both frustrated.

So, we had to go back to Claire's today. Since Benton left out of town this morning, I brought along my trusty girlfriend, Stephanie to help assist me with both girls. I talked to the manager who didn't work last night and explained the situation. We again tried talking to Cambree about how it would only hurt for a minute, to close her eyes so she couldn't see what was going to happen. Talking didn't work. So it came down to us pinning her down. I held onto her arms and head, Stephanie held onto her legs since she was kicking and thrashing around and the manager held her head and forced her to get her other ear pierced.

So after about 4 hours spent at Claire's BOTH of her ears are now pierced. And she's loving it and acts like nothing happened. I learned my lesson for Addie and won't attempt that again for a very, very long time.

Before with only one ear pierced.

After with both!