Buh Bye Pacifiers

We toyed with all the possibilities in cutting Reilly's tie to his pacifiers. We knew it was going to be pretty tough because he had been sleeping with them for three years (give or take a few months). Shad and I thought that we would tell Reilly that we needed to put them all in a box and bury them in the backyard. We started this discussion a month prior to his 3rd birthday. "When you turn 3 we will put all your paci's in a box and bury them in the backyard", he didn't seem to have a problem with this concept. It was about 2 weeks later we realized Reilly thought he would just dig them up when he needed them, so we altered the story. "When you turn 3 we will put all your paci's in a box and mail them to a little boy in California". Again, it was met with acceptance, however this version of the story was questioned.... "why do I send them to a little boy?"... to which we responded "it's a little boy who needs them and doesn't have any and when you turn 3 you will be a big boy and you don't need them anymore."

When August 12 came, we collected all the paci's we could find and we put them in a special box. Daddy took them to work the next day and mailed them to California. (actually they are probably still on Shad's desk, but he was told never to bring them home again)

The first couple days were tough, and we occassionally have a request, but other than that, the separation was successful.

And there was blue....

Da da da da... And Red.... da da da da.... And Yellow.... da da dada... And Purple too... ~The Wiggles

One of Reilly's favorite songs... we play it from the iPod over and over and over again. We sing it, we hum it, and we dance to it. Well, Nicole often says

"oh great, now that song is going to be stuck in my head."

A few days later the song was on tv, Reilly said to me

Is this stuck in Nicole's hair?

Oh, the toddler's mind - it's so cool!

Happy Birthday Dominic

Kate's Baptism was August 7, the same day as my Mom's birthday. Being late, as I always am, I ordered the invites just a week before the service. I had verbally invited those who we wanted to come, but I had not done anything formally. So, I went on Shutterfly, customized the invitations, paid to have them shipped overnight, and then I would send them out just 5 days before the service. I suppose they were just a formality and nothing more. So, a day later, Nicole let me know they had come in the mail. When I got home from work she and I opened the box from Shutterfly. To our suprise there was a box of invitations with some Star Wars guys on the cover and a little boy. We opened the invites and learned that Dominic from Redwood City would be celebrating his 5th birthday on August 12. At least his Mom had planned more in advance.

I called Shutterfly, they couldn't do anything for me prior to the Baptism aside from giving me a credit. How bummed was I??? Very. I didn't know what to do. So, I RSVP'd to Dominic's birthday party - actually I just told his Mom I had her invites. To make a very long story short, she emailed me all the addresses of Dominic's friends and I mailed them out for her.

Later, I did order one invite just to put in Kate's baby book and I saved one of Dom's to put in there for her too.