i b'dazzled my baby!

a week and a half ago, we took laurelai to get her ears pierced.  we had been wanting to do it for a while, and now that she's six and a half months old, we figured we needed to do it now or wait until she was elementary age, which we weren't too keen on.  penelope got hers done at four months old, and i LOVED having them done at that age - so easy to keep clean, and she was too little to ever mess with them.  other than the actual moment she was pierced, it was like she didn't even notice them.

i know that baby piercings are a touchy subject, and i even had a woman at church the other weekend cluck her tongue at me when she saw them.  (people still do that!  and not just in movies!  i had no idea.)  you guys are free to judge me if you want - i really don't mind, since i love ya, and we're 100% cool with our decision.

anyway, on to the juicy stuff.  and by that i mean the photographs.  (warning: super-sad crying baby photos coming up.  look away.)

before getting her earrings.  i almost feel bad for how naive and happy she looks at this point.

'hmm, those sparkly things are pretty.  i bet everything that is about to happen to me here is going to be the awesomest.'

i warned you this sad face was coming, but you didn't listen to me.  now look what you did.  you made her cry.

oh, little lady, just wait until you try waxing your legs someday.  beauty is pain, little one.  it's best you learn it early.

and just to prove that i'm not a terrible mother, laurelai would like to tell you what she currently thinks of her new earrings, now that she's had time to think it through:

(for anyone wondering, she's done really well with them.  she never messes with them, i clean them once a day and there is no sign of redness, swelling or infection, and she doesn't even flinch when i turn them.  she's healed up quickly and all is smooth sailing in b'dazzled-baby world.)