Jessie and Doggie are inseparable these days. Doggie has developed into his own person, complete with different likes and dislikes than Jessie has. He is scared of a Halloween book that Jessie likes, so she has to put him away when she wants me to read it so he won't get scared. I don't want to think of what would happen if we ever lost him. She gives him more hugs and kisses than we get!
Ever since we took away Jessie's pacifier a couple of weeks ago, her naps have been sporadic. She doesn't seem to really miss the paci too much, but I guess she is having trouble drifting off to sleep in the afternoons. Usually she cries for a while then either goes to sleep or sings and talks to her animals for a while. Well, today she had a hissy fit when I left her room. While I was waiting for her to calm down she figured out how to climb out of her crib. We've been discussing when to convert her crib to a toddler bed and that made the decision for us. We didn't want her falling out and hurting herself. So tonight she is sleeping for the first time in her toddler bed. My little girl is growing up.
Tonight is a big landmark- Jessie threw her pacifiers away. I've been trying to prepare her for a month now, telling her every day that in a few weeks she was going to be a big girl and throw her pacis away because she didn't need them anymore. Tonight when I told her it was time, she said "I'm not ready, in a few weeks." I suggested she go get her doggie to help her because it was going to be tonight. She went and got doggie, sucked on each paci, told them good-bye, and chucked them in the trash can. And that was that. So far at least. When I put her in her crib a little while later, she asked where her paci was. I reminded her that she threw them away. She replied as she does a million times a day to everything, "why?" But she seemed to accept the answer and went peacefully to sleep. The end of an era. Bye-bye paci.
