Around our house, the paccie may be gone but it is certainly not forgotten. Oh yes, Maddy goes to sleep just fine without it now but when she is having a rough day, Maddy still wants it! In fact, when we were recently discussing the "prize" to work towards for this "round" on the behavior chart, Cady wanted to work towards princess toothpaste but Maddy chose a paccie. Upon being denied that request, she settled on princess toothpaste too but I'm sure it's a pretty poor substitute for a paccie, in her book.
Recently, when Maddy had had a particularly difficult evening, she had a tough time falling asleep. She fussed and fussed. She cried and cried for her paccie. After a few attempts on my part to calm her down, big sis trotted upstairs to see what she could do to help. After a few minutes, Cady came back downstairs and began drawing. What was she drawing? You got it -- a paccie!! Her sister wanted a paccie, so Cady drew her one and carefully cut it out. She then took it up to Maddy, who quieted down soon thereafter.
The next morning when I went in to wake them up, Maddy was snuggled up in her crib, clutching her paper paccie.
5 comments:
Oh, how sweet. What a nice big sister thing to do. I know how horrible paci withdrawals are. They almost killed Ella and me. It took a long time for her to fall asleep on her own (months) but she finally did it. Things will get back to normal.
That is absolutely adorable!!
What a sweet story!!! When they are at each others' throats as teenagers, you HAVE to pull this one out!!
LOVE it. I agree w/ Amy--my Ella had a complete meltdown when we finally got rid of the binky. She still has a lovey--a silky. Guess what it is. I have many many scraps of silkies.
Constantine, you're a GREAT Mom! (I just had to call you Constantine for old time sake!)
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