When I was young, you got your ears pierced at a shopping mall store or, the way I did it, at home with ice and a needle. Today, tattoo parlors are the recommended place to go. For Havana’s 8th birthday, we let her get her ears pierced so this evening we went to Pierced Hearts.

Her doctor, Jeremy:

The operation:

Painless and successful:

My beautiful daughter is even more beautiful.