No More Passy

Grant has been attached to her passy from the moment she was born. We have tried several times to talk her in to giving up passy but we really didn't think she was ready. Grant is still very oral and inappropriately puts everything in her mouth, at least the passy was appropriate and kept her mouth occupied. However, for several months she has had nothing short of blisters all around her mouth from constant licking and sucking passy. So, last Saturday we decided it was time to force the issue. We explained to Grant that passy was hurting her mouth and she was too big for it. I bagged up all of her passy's in a ziploc bag and placed it in a tree. We waited an hour and went back to discover that the Mommy birds had taken her passy's off to their babies in the nest! It was the only thing that Grant would allow....we made a huge deal about how special it was that she shared her passy's with the baby birds. It has not been an easy transition but as time passes, she seems to be doing fine. She still cries for it and getting her to sleep is harder but it needed to be done, especially before her baby brother arrives. Now we sit in the kitchen window and try to spot the baby birds with passy's in their mouths! Hooray for Grant!