Reward Time!

The charts are finally full! Some of you know that Mya and Ana have been working on earning stickers to complete these charts for over 3 months now. I originally thought they would fill these much faster, since 5 stickers can be earned per day and there are only 75 boxes (that's less than 3 weeks!). Anyway, Ana completed hers a few days before Mya but I held out so they could get their reward on the same day. They now both have thier ears pierced! This is something that Mya has been wanting for a long time, but until the adoption was finalized it was not an option. I am proud of them for working so hard to earn this reward, and here is the mini version of what happened that day...

We dropped off Mya at school, and then I took Ana to the mall. I had to strategically devise the plan because Ana is much tougher than Mya, and I didn't want to go home with a singly pierced Mya. Here is Ana without earrings for the last time, not having a clue of what was about to happen to her.

The girl was really good about piercing the second ear very quickly after the first so Ana didn't have much time to react. Poor Ana didn't cry at all--she just looked at the girl like, "Why did you just do that????!!!" Then she looked at me with half a frown, pointed to her ear and said, "Ouchy Mommy." What a big girl! The suckers helped a little, but she was still trying to figure out what we had just done to her. I chose tiny sterling hearts for Ana Banana. They will have to stay in for 6 weeks.

I asked the girl if when I brough back Mya, they could pierce her ears at the same time. She said if I came back when the shifts switched, there would be 2 people to help. So-- we picked up Mya and wasted a little time playing together. Mya was so excited for Ana, and that her ears looked so pretty.

This photo makes me laugh :)

So now it was Mya's turn. Here is the last picture of Mya without earrings, and excited for her reward...

Both piercings done at once..

And then the cry, with a little shriek...

She was given a sucker too, and 2 minutes later once she looked in the mirror, she was happy again.

Mya helped choose little pink and gold stars and she is very ready to show them to EVERYONE!

Whew! Not sure what the next reward will be for completing the new chart--but Mya doesn't seem to care anymore since she got her earrings!