Bye Bye Pacifier

Friday night McKay left his beloved pacifiers for the pacifier fairy with a note telling the fairy to take his pacifiers to new little babies who need them, since he is too big for them now. He usually uses his blue 'pas', and I keep his two green pacifiers in the cupboard for when he wakes up at 2 am asking for his pas and/or when we can't find the blue one. He likes the green pas better than the blue one because it is softer. Had I thought about it, I would have just had him set out the blue one rather than pulling out the two green pacifiers too. He saw those and said 'baby one, me two'. He was willing to give up the blue one but not the two green pacifiers. He popped one green pas in his mouth and I told him it was okay to suck on it one last time. At that point, Jordan doubled over laughing (somewhat silently) at the situation. McKay finished sucking on that one and said 'baby two, me one'. We were getting closer!

We showed him some pictures of new babies and showed him how small they are and then talked about how many big kid things he can do. Finally, he surrendered the last pas, saying 'me no pas (shaking his head no), baby pas (nodding his head yes)'. We reminded him the pacifier fairy would bring him a surprise for his pas and he went to bed without his pas for the first time in his life.

He only asked once for a drink of water and when I went in there he said again, 'baby pas, me no pas'. And that is how it has been at each nap time or bedtime. He remembers he gave his pas to the new babies and goes to sleep. We are so proud of McKay! Our boy is growing up on us!

McKay was excited to see that the pacifier fairy left him some Magic Sand, the Brown Bear book collection, and some silly putty, which he played with off and on all day long. He's only used his pas to sleep and has kept it on his dresser the rest of the day for quite a while, which I think helped. He sure was cute trying to negotiate how many he was willing to give up and if we didn't feel it was 'time' to be done with the pas it sure would have been easy to let him keep it a little longer. Now he has 4 months until his little brother is born and I don't think (hope) he will be taking his brother's pas now, and yes, we are hoping for another pas baby!

McKay enjoying his surprises' with Daddy.

Bonus pictures:

McKay likes going to Trader Joes. They have good samples and he gets stickers and a balloon most of the time. It is hard to tell but he has stickers on each cheek, on top of his head in his hair, and on his chin, as well as the stickers you can see. They only stay on for a few minutes. For some reason, his hair is always the first place he puts stickers.

That's our boy!