letting go

Someone once told me that raising children is a constant process of letting go...of letting them become more and more independent. This is yet another step in letting go. The boys have been so attatched to their pacifiers and this was a hard step to give them up. We decided to send them on balloons to Paris for babies who needed them. What we didn't realize is that the paci weighed the balloon down too much for the balloon to fly away. We had to secretly cut it before they released it. The Paci fairy came for 3 nights and left little treats under the boys pillows to help with this big transition too.