Piercing Debate

You know how there are things you never actually think about before you have kids?

Well this was one of those for me. Before having the Peanut I didn't think about piercing ears and earrings and all that jazz. I mean my parents had my ears pierced when I was a couple of months old and I'm glad I have a lot of nice pairs of earrings and love them, but it was never something I thought about when it came to having a baby.

Now that the Peanut is here and the Peanut is a girl, family members have been asking "So when are you getting her ears pierced?". My parents have already bought her a really nice pair of gold ones from Portugal and my grandparents sent a beautiful pair as well for her. All my little girl cousins and my sister have pierced ears.

I guess it's a cultural thing and the hubby and I mulled it over and thought about it.

I did a lot of research and talked to the Peanut's pediatrician about the cons and risks and how safe it really is. We did quite a bit of soul searching and thought about the reasons why we'd would want this done or not and if this was something that the Peanut would be happy about or not at a later date.

I was wondering what you all thought about it. Do your little girls have their ears pierced or would you rather they make that decision when they are older?

Yippy... great weather

Haven't been posting much these days because the Peanut and I have been whooping it up outside and taking advantage of the great weather that has hit T.O.This winter was seriously brutal and I was so sun deprived and going stir crazy that once the sun was out I grabbed our little bundle of sunshine and took to the streets.

We have been going for walks in the neighbourhood, going to the library and down by the lake shore, I've even cracked out the roller blades. The tulips and spring flowers are starting to poke their little heads out of the ground and the smell of spring is in the air.

Time for spring cleaning! I'm thinking I'll have to leave the peanut at my mom's for a couple of hours in order to get anything done.