About a month ago we celebrated Adri's third birthday party. Since my family has never got to celebrate with her we decided to take her to California for her party. Natalie spent most of the month making the decorations, something any straight male finds crazy. When Adri woke up on her birthday she walked out in the living room to streamers and balloons everywhere. When I got home from work we made the drive to California. Natalie continued the crazy and stayed up with my sister until 2 in the morning decorating when I just went over to my parents house and crashed out (I just had a 10 hour work day and 6 hour drive).
The next day we had all the cousins and a couple friends over for her big day. Tangled is one of Adri's favorite movies right now so Natalie went with a tangled theme, complete with fake mustaches, swords, and eye patches.
This was the first birthday where Adri knew what was going on. For a week before her birthday she kept talking about it and all the decorations. She actually stayed awake during her party for the first time.
The weekend after Adri's birthday party I decided we needed to get her ears pierced. We had been putting it off too long. The doctor wanted way too much money to do it when she was an infant and after that I think we were afraid to take her to get it done anywhere else. So we finally decided it was time and took her to Claire's. I had an experience being stalked by the police there, see my blog about CCW In Arizona to read about that.
When we first got there Adri was sitting patiently in the chair waiting for her earrings sucking on the lollipop I told her she could have to distract her. Then out of nowhere she asked me if it was going to hurt. I don't know where she came up with that but I lied to her and told her no. Natalie decided we can't lie and told Adri it's going to hurt "just a little". Adri didn't like that and started crying like crazy. After getting her first ear pierced it got worse and the girl assigned to her left ear froze up. The girl that did her right ear grabbed the piercing gun from her, told her to get out the way, and said she's gonna get it done with. After it was all done I picked her up and walked her around the store until she stopped crying. I gave her another lollipop and showed her the earrings which put a big smile on her face. After that Adri was proudly showing off her earrings every time we asked. And now she keeps telling me "Papa, I think I need a lollipop to distract me". She obviously didn't know what it means but she keeps trying to get her way with it.
I've been bad on keeping up on the crazy things Adri has been saying lately so I'll put them in my next post.
Why are we beating up Rapunzel and not Mother Gothel?
Before getting her earrings done.
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