Paci Blues and Such

Today was a big day at our house. I decided last weekend that this weekend I would start taking paci away from Maddy. I have always believed in not rushing things like taking paci away, but lately Maddy just has it 24/7, whereas she used to only want it when she got tired or hurt. I decided I needed to go ahead and start weaning her now before it became extremely difficult. I must say I was really nervous over how today would go and was scared I might give in and give it to her but that was not the case. We had a birthday party to go to today so we packed up the car with no paci and off we went. She did ask for her paci but she got over it pretty quickly. As we were driving down the road all of a sudden she just starts whining. I looked back and saw the door to her cd player was on her hand so I told her to open it. Next thing I know she is just boo hooing and I realized something was really wrong with her hand. I pulled over and sure enough she had her finger stuck up in the opening of the slot where the cd's go through and to make matters worse the cd was helping to pin her finger down. Anytime I touched her toy she just screamed in pain and it just broke my heart. I finally figured out that if I turned the cd player upside down her hand would not be twisted and then I could get the cd out and then her finger would be released and it worked like a charm. When I first saw her finger I was so scared it was broke because it looked funky. I quickly rubbed her hand and she just looked at me but instantly calmed down. I was shaking so bad and believe me I about just swooped her up and ran into bi-lo to buy her a paci but I knew I had to stay strong and I was proud of both of us for getting through that incident without paci. After the birthday party we went shopping and got some cute clothes for Maddy.

These are just a few of the things we bought. Tomorrow we are headed down to Calhoun, GA to the outlet mall to go to OshKosh, Carters, Old Navy, and the children's place. Maddy is sound asleep in her room...and so happy to have paci might I add lol.