earring fiasco

I forgot to mention that I had to replace Emma's cute little circle earrings with some X's. On friday I was going to lay her down for her nap when I noticed she was missing an earring. I started crawling on the floor looking for the earring and all I could find was the back. I then took out her the new earrings and cleaned them to get them ready for when she woke up. When she woke up I took her to the bathroom to put her earrings on. I alwasy sit her on the counter while I do her hair, so that seemed like a good place for me to put her earrings on. I got the first earring on and while I was trying to get the back screwed on, the back slipped out of my fingers and into the sink drain. I got the other back and put it on. Then she had one of each earring, but my focus was now on getting the back out of my sink. I then proceeded to get all the stuff out from under my counter so I could figure out how to open the "trap" on my sink that I had been told about nine years earlier, sinc ei had never used it before. I got the back out, and then I felt obsessed to do a major cleaning on the back. I then proceeded to change the second earring and now she was matching. After picking up John David from school I found the actual earring in the saucer downstairs. I guess I will never know how an earrings falls off, but the back hangs on and falls off later. But I do know...don't change earrings near a sink.