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Hannah Gets Her Ears Pierced!

Well, my pictures are all out of order and for some reason I just can't move them the way I want to on this laptop. So, I will just have to tell the story out of order which really bugs me. Oh well. My mom works for a wholesale jewelry company and they have the guns to pierce ears. So, needless to say she's pierced a lot of ears in the 20 some odd years she's worked there. When Hannah was four my mom asked if she could pierce her ears and when I told Hannah she cried and was terribly upset that her Grammy would want to hurt her like that. Now that she is approaching 10 in a couple of months she was ready for Grammy to hurt her. And, we have a rule in our house that little girls can't get their ears pierced until they are 10. 9 and 10 months was close enough and Grammy brought her gun with her this trip. She actually brought two because she and my crazy sister in the above picture were each going to do an ear so that it is over with faster. But, the second gun didn't work so Hannah had to do it the old-fashioned way, one ear at at a time!

Finally we distracted her with a funny DVD (Tim Hawkins) and Grammy did it without her knowing it was about to be done. Grammy tricked her with the "I'm just lining it up trick."

Here she actually ran away from the chair sure that she just could not do this.Here she is panicking and considering changing her mind.

Here she's having the second one done and being Ms. Drama Queen. She's still half smiling while she's screaming. No tears though.

One happy girl with her new look!

This is before we got started, she's a little nervous but not in full blown panic mode yet.

Meet Esmerelda, the art teacher

Hannah came up with this outrageous outfit yesterday and dubbed herself, Esmerelda--the art teacher.

A Future Fashion Designer?

Ever since Hannah could walk and talk she has been into fashion. Her first full sentence was "I pick a dress." I would hold her up in front of her closet while she picked a dress everyday, multiple times a day. She also went through a pretty long phase where she could outfit herself quite nicely given a blanket or a towel, and some clothespins. I could go on and on with stories about her and fashion but this post is about her latest passion. Fashion design. She's been drawing princesses and women in all sorts of dresses for years but while in GA back in September we had the opportunity to meet and talk to a real fashion designer while sitting at a park. This woman had a sketchbook full of designs and needless to say Hannah was enthralled and has since started her own sketchbook. Below are a few samples of her designs.

She's now taken this fashion designing one step further using her little sister as her model. I have a pretty big stash of fabric and she finds large pieces and designs all sorts of dresses with them. I usually don't get pictures (and some of them are pretty bad--wouldn't need a picture) but I thought this one was really nice so I snapped a pic. Her only complaint--not enough safety pins in our house to hold together her creations. On her Christmas list is a big box of safety pins. We are going to a fairy party on Friday and she is thinking she might design something for the party--the only glitch--not enough safety pins!

I don't know if this is something she will continue to pursue as she gets older but it will be interesting to see.