Pacifier Fairy!

So far we've been pacifier-free for over 40 hours and counting :)

Poppy's handling it really well. I was worried she wasn't ready to give hers up yet since she's not even 14 months old. But Lolli is starting preschool this week and turning 3 next week, so it was beyond time for the pacifiers to disappear.

Lolli gave hers up (via the Build-A-Bear method) when she was 23 months old and did great for 7 months, despite the temptation of Poppy's pacifiers laying around. Then something flipped inside her and she begged/screamed/wailed for a pacifier for over a month before we gave in, thinking it was a phase. It wasn't. So we decided to get all the pacifiers out of the house this time around to reduce the temptation.

So when we were leaving the house Saturday evening, the girls put their pacifiers into a box and left it on our "pacifier station" for the fairy. Obviously this was mostly for the benefit of our Lolli, but Poppy had heard the story enough times that I think she kind of understood. Anyway, the girls loved coming home to find that the Pacifier Fairy had left them each a Pillow Pet: a bee for Lolli and a ladybug for Poppy.

Lolli's only mentioned a pacifier twice, during times when she was already upset about something. Poppy asks more often (She goes, "Wa wa?" in such a sweet little voice it almost breaks my heart), but she doesn't get upset when I tell her it's all gone. The first night she wanted my boobs all night long but last night was only 3 times, so I can handle that.

I'm hoping there won't be some sort of 48 hour backlash or something LOL I'll feel a lot better when this first week is over!