Brienne's pierced ears

April 6, 2008

The conversation started innocently enough.

With a sly smile on her face, "Daddy, will you buzz my hair?" Brienne asked Damien after he finished cutting his hair this afternoon.

"Sure." was Daddy's quick and joking reply.

"Ok, I want my hair buzzed." Brienne fired back.

Mommy tuned in to the conversation at this point and responded with basically a "no way young lady" and added that "little girls with really short hair look like boys and we want our little girls to look like princesses. At the very least you'd have to have pierced ears so you looked like a girl."

A long face from Brienne and a sad reply, "But I don't know when I'll get my ears pierced."

"You could get it done today." We quickly responded. Jumping at the chance of her willing to pierce her ears as we've wanted to do it for years.

"Ok, I want to get my ears pierced." Brienne answered. "I want to get them pierced today."

And that was a compromise we could all agree to.

But a couple questions are still nagging me. Now that she has her ears pierced and "looks like a girl" will she ask again to buzz her hair? And if she does what will I say then? And if she wants to buzz her hair when she's 5 (she asked and was fairly adamant in her request because of my negative reaction - apple didn't fall far from the tree) what is she going to want to do when she's 15?!? I don't even want to imagine.