And it's official...

The paci is gone and she's a big girl now!

We took the pacis to the babies at the hospital. Daddy told Sara Beth at the beginning of the year that in order to have a birthday party she was going to have to say bye-bye to the paci. She has been talking about this a lot. Today, she told Dr. Tiffany what she was going to do and Dr. Tiffany said that was a good idea and that she needed to go ahead and do it. When she and Zeb were having a discussion about this she told him that Dr. Tiffany said she must get rid of her paci "right now". Poor Zeb had just gotten home from 33 hours at the hospital only to turn around and go right back. He decided, though, since she was ready now was the time.

All the way to the hospital she was talking about giving them up. She said, "Mommy, the babies are going to love my pacis cause they are pinkalicious!" Of course, I agreed wholeheartedly!


Handing them over to Daddy to take to the nurse.

She gave them right over. You can tell she was trying really hard to be big! When we walked away she was real quiet and didn't really want to talk--it absolutely broke my heart. I was hoping she would break into tears so my could come flowing!

A big cone for a big girl!

So bedtime... I put Leigh to bed first so I could focus on SB (Zeb had a meeting and was not here). Sara Beth and I read three books and she was snuggling with me. In the middle of book no. 2 she said, "hold on Momma and let me get my..... oh never mind". What a big girl! After we pray and she climbs in bed she says, "Momma, can I just use Spot's ear (a puppy) as my paci." I just assure her that Spot is a good snuggle partner. She gets out of bed several times. After about 30 minutes of her getting up and me putting her back I hear her rumbling around. She comes out with a knob from one of her drawers. She tells me that she is looking for her purple paci. (Now, she had lots of pink pacis and one purple paci---she knew she had just given the pink ones to the babies--too smart!) Little did she know that her mean mommy has been throwing pacis out and cutting pacis for the last week! After 1 1/2 hours I had to tell her that if she got out of bed one more time I was going to have to spank her. Fortunately she knew I would so she stayed in bed. I really didn't want to punish her because I knew this was a hard night.
I can only wait to see what happens in the middle of the night and for naps tomorrow!