The Paci Fairy

We decided that it was definitely time for EJ to give up his much beloved pacifier. He only gets it at naps and bedtime, but it is still very important to him. Paco and I have been tossing around a few ideas to get rid of it, but we finally settled on using the "paci fairy". Past generations may not know of this addition to gift bearing mythical creatures, which was developed to let parents buy toys they want while having an excuse :) Paco has been dying to get EJ a train set and this was the perfect opportunity. So, last night the paci fairy left EJ an envelope and he placed all his pacifiers into it and placed the envelope by the front door. We told him the fairy would leave him a present in the morning if he went to sleep without his paci.

It was a rough start to the night. He went down great, but within a few minutes we were hearing "I want my mommy!" and "Mommy, come into my room PLEASE!" Just imagine that in super whiny 2 year old tones. He never really full on cried, but whined until about 11:00. I went into his room and rocked him a bit to calm him down and after that he must have been too tired to complain much more and fell asleep and was out until 7:30 this morning. We are trying to get him to nap right now, but he is missing his paci again. Hopefully he will conk out, but I'm not holding my breath.

EJ did get his great train set though and has played with it all morning long. It is the fisher price geo-trax and he and Paco are in love with it. Here are a few pictures of their morning fun.