The main event in our house this week is MV saying goodbye to her paci. She only used it when she was sleeping, but we gave them to the "pacifier fairy" yesterday. I got this idea from the show "Super Nanny". The way it works is you get a bag and let them decorate the bag, and then you go around and collect all the pacis in the bag. After you collect them all, you put the bag in the mailbox (or some other location), and the pacifier fairy comes and gets them to take to all the new babies that need them. In return for giving up the pacis, the fairy leaves a prize in the bag that the pacis were in. O.K., I know you are thinking that this is a crazy idea, but it WORKED!!!! MV was very excited throughout the decorating, finding, and even putting them in the mailbox stage of the event. She did have a hard time at nap yesterday (crying alot), but last night she went right to sleep without a peep and slept until 6:45 this morning(her normal time)!!! The pacifier fairy left her a Tinkerbell doll as her prize and she LOVES it and even slept with it last night. Here are some pictures from our farewell ceremony yesterday. I am sooo proud of her and this really makes me realize how big she is getting!!
Decorating her bag
Hunting for pacis
Taking them to the mailbox
Showing off her Tinkerbell doll
2 comments:
Yeah, Mary Varner!!!! I am so proud of her~she is such a big girl now!! Stay strong, Mom, it is harder on us to hear them missing those pacis!! She will do great!!
I knew you were talking about taking the paci this week and wondered how it had gone. Glad to hear that it wasn't very painful.
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