The Plug Fairy

We did something big last night...Hayden decided he was ready to get rid of his plugs, aka. pacifiers. He asked about it a couple days ago out of the blue. We had discussed it before but were not in any hurry and were going to let him decide in his own time. He was very excited that he was going to be getting a gift, and talked about being a big boy and that babies needed his old plugs.

We wrote the fairy a note about what he wanted and put everything in a bag, so it was easy for her to carry back to her fairy house.

Very excited about what he has done!

The excitement did not last long. When it came time to go to bed and realization set in, he was not happy, to say the least. Hayden's plugs were a part of his life...an extension of him when it came to sleeping. They even had an order and names. After lots of rocking and consoling, he finally fell asleep. He did wake up in the night and that is what he wanted. Luckily he only cried a little and fell back asleep with a little rocking fairly quickly.

This is what he found when he woke up in the morning. He actually missed it and didn't even realize at first because his room was still pretty dark! I think he had temporarily forgotten about the night before.

He was very excited to get his James train. It had to be opened right away.

Fast forward to nap time and the realization came back that there was nothing to put in his mouth. Something was again missing from the regularity of his life. He got in and out of bed several times, and then the crying began. We had to rock but he did finally pass out from his emotional exhaustion!

On to tonight, we are happy to say that Hayden went to bed without any tears and very little issue of something to put in his mouth. He did ask to get new ones at the store another day! We'll just keep changing the subject :-)