The last time she had her kinky
Right before her shopping spreeYesterday Violet made a major change in her life. We took her to Toys R Us and we told her she could pick out a toy, but she had to pay for it with her "kinky" (thats what she calls her pacifier). She said okay and was looking at all the toys. She looked at Barbies, princess stuff, kitchen play dishes, but when she saw a lawn mower on display, she ran, grabbed it, and started to push it around the store. After about 10 minutes of her mowing the Toys R Us aisle, it was clear to Paul and I that that is what she wanted. We showed her the more deluxe, bubble blowing version and there was no turning back. We took her up the cash register, a long with her toy and a small pool we decided to get her. We explained that she had to give the cashier her bag of kinkys in order to take her lawn mower home and she happily handed over her bag.
She has been doing really good without her kinky. We do have to explain what happened to it when she asks for it. And a couple of times she has asked for "baby brother's kinky", but we tell her he needs his kinky. We have been dreading doing this for so long, but it has been a lot better than we anticipated. But as long as we have babies in our family, their pacifiers will be called "kinkys".
4 comments:
That is such a good idea to get her off the Kinky! Cute!
That is a fantastic idea! Kadee is so hooked to her binky and I have been trying to think of ways to take it away so she understands. Kadee is almost 3 and so does not need a binky anymore so I think I will try this one out! Thanks for the idea!
Very, very clever way to handle this age old problem!
Clever idea!
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