Exhibit B:
Now this isn't just any old Ba. No no no, this is the Ba! I've bought numerous pacifiers but all to Haley's repugnance. You name it, I've bought it! Even the same exact brand, color, texture and size. She has spent the last 22 months wearing in that same piece of silicone that it must have some special scent on it that only Haley can recognize. It's been boiled day after day, it's been sewn to it's attaching clip in fear that the sacred Ba would be lost!
As soothing as it may be for a child, the pacifier was clearly designed by a mother desperately seeking some sanity! At least that's what I like to think. Kataeya also had a love for her "Fier" as she called it. When two years old came around it was decided that it would be taken away. She did it cold turkey! That was a loooooong week. After that experience you think I would have learned and would have taken a different route the second time around...
Haley will be turning two in July so Brad and I knew that it would soon be time to wean Haley of her Ba. After receiving a good suggestion from Nancy and another friend of mine, I decided to just do it one day! She had been taking it off and leaving it around the house. I would jokingly tell her to throw it in the trash and she would laugh that goofy laugh of hers and actually walk over to the trash can but I knew that the moment I went to put her down for bed she would go crazy so we would tell her not to throw it away.
On the 23rd of May I was sitting at the computer and glanced over my shoulder and spotted Ba laying on the floor. I thought to myself here is your opportunity! Take the suggestions and just do it! So I grabbed the Ba and before I could take another breath I had snipped the top off of it! I then carefully placed it back right where she had left it.
About a half hour later she came racing around the corner yelling, "Mama look-a look-a!!" My stomach dropped and I turned to find myself cracking up because she had such a look of disbelief on her little face. She then continued to tell me, "Ba's brokten! Look-a Ba brokten!"
Holding back tears of laughter, I responded with as much bewilderness as her, "What?! Ba is broken?!"
"Yeah. Ba brokten!"
Then she tried it and instantly spit it out to say, "Ewww, gross!" And ran back to her room to play. Then we lived happily ever after.... yeah right! So I said it was the 23rd because this is key, the Friday leading into Memorial Day Weekend. The drive down to San Diego that night was insane! You would have thought that her entire world was flipped upside down!
Here we are a little over a week later and we have had our moments and then a few more moments and then a few more after that. She doesn't miss it or call for it like Kataeya did, she just screams in spurts at anything directed toward her.
As I look back over the week I think it's been a relatively basic transition. But for Brad who is less than a week away from taking the second exam for his CFA probably doesn't think it went as smoothly as I do. I clearly didn't think it all the way through but what's done is done!
Who knows... maybe I'll get it right the third time around!
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