As of Friday, May 4, Eve is pacifier free! We had just had dinner with our friends that are having a baby and we convinced her to give her pacifiers to their baby. I had read about convincing your child to give their pacifiers to another baby but I figured it would just make the child mad when the baby actually came because they took away their pacifier. However, the opportunity presented itself and I went with it. Eve found one of the small pacifiers (she has been calling them baby pacifiers because they don’t fit her mouth) and she brought it to me saying baby. Light bulb went off and I asked her if we should give it to Jenna’s baby. She said yes. She had two of her bigger pacifiers in her hands and immediately stuck one in her mouth. So I asked her should we give the one in your mouth to Jenna’s baby? She thought for well over a minute about that question complete with shifting eyes. Then she said yes and handed it to me. She stuck her other pacifier in her mouth and we went through the same thing. She gave that one up too. I quickly ran the pacifiers out of the room. We convinced her she was no longer a baby and that she was a big girl that doesn’t need pacifiers. Also, we told her Jenna’s baby would be very happy now that he had her pacifiers (people being happy is very motivating for her). She looked in her crib that night and said no wa-was (pacifiers) and she asked for the purple one (which we had not found yet) but we told her she was a big girl and she didn’t fuss. She has been pacifier free since then. I guess once she makes up her mind she is done.
Yesterday we found two more pacifiers and she exclaimed uh-oh! She went to put them in her bed and then stopped and ran to me as if they were evil and gave them to me. We packaged them up this morning in a gift bag and Eve proudly gave them all to Jenna for her baby.
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