Bye Bye Pacifier
Well, our house has been pacifier-free now for a little over a week. I had bought a book called Bye Bye Pacifier and we started reading it. In it, the Mommy sent the little boy's pacifier to babies that needed one. I asked Avery if she wanted to send her pacifiers to babies that needed them and she told me she wanted to give them to Baby Sam. So, we put all of her pacifiers in a bag and took them to Baby Sam She even put them in the bag herself. She wanted to hold the bag and look at them and I think she put each one in her mouth one last time before we dropped them off. We told her that since she was such a big girl that she got to go to the store and pick out a big girl present for giving up the pacifiers. She chose the Little People airplane. I wanted her to get the Little People dance and twirl palace but she said no? Of course that evening at bedtime, she asked for her pacie. I told her that they were gone and she had to look in the cabinet to verify they were not there. She cried just a little bit at bedtime but went to bed pretty easily. That night, though, she woke up several times crying. I never realized how much that pacifier helped soothe her and help her to go back to sleep. I started wondering what we had done! Avery has been such a great sleeper and I think we owe a lot of that to the pacifier. It was a long day the next day. But, she has done really well most nights since then and no longer even asks for her pacifier. She did say she wanted to go see Baby Sam the other night when we were talking about where her pacifiers went. I think she's secretly plotting a reconnaissance mission to get those pacifiers back?
