The Mi Mi is Gone!!!

Amen, praise heaven. Dave and I finally decided that Brett's pacifier had to go!! The question was is how are we going to be so mean and cruel and get the job done!! Does this happen with your last child? It seems it is much harder to do the things that you know you need to do, when it may cause them temporary discomfort. I had agonized and agonized about throwing it away. We tried to coax it out of him. We went waterskiing, and we tried to have him throw it overboard into Chatfield Resevoir. He wasn't having ANY of our shenanigans!! He needed his Mi Mi.

My mom called a couple of days later and told me how she got my brother to throw his pacifier away. It was settled....we had formulated a plan. Our little family got in the car and drove down to the Springs. We then found the closest Toys R Us, and went in to tempt him. He couldn't take it, and found many toys that he absolutely had to have. We narrowed it down to a few, and then went to the checkout. We told him in order to get his new presents, he had to give his pacifier to the store clerk. She threw it away in front of him, and he got his new toys. The trade worked out marvelously until that night, when he told us he didn't want his new toys anymore, he wanted his Mi Mi. Too bad...so sad. Ha ha. We had to stay strong. It is day three, and things have gone relatively smooth. He has had a few temper tantrums, because he is trying to learn new ways to self-soothe. He will figure it out. I thought you would enjoy the pictures of Toys R US, and then when we went to Garden of the Gods immediately after.