Pacifier?

Back to my fireman dress up Sam. Bye Bye Thomas, HELLO Firetrucks. It always amazes me how children love something for a while, and then move onto the next thing. For the past year it has been all about Thomas the Train. We've gone through 2 train tables, over extending out use on each and every table. Sam would play with trains for ever and ever and I had to peel him away from there to leave the house.

Recently, he has put those trains to rest. Our newest train table has bit the bullet and is now resting peacefully out by the trash bins. So, I decided it was time to put all the trains away and bring out at another time and have them be fresh and new! The newest craze around here is trucks, cars, dress up and firefighters. We have a firestation a mile down the road. Everytime we pass I tell Sam we can stop there and drop off all his nene's (pacifiers). The catch is, I will make it on Sam's time. Not mommy time. I keep telling him when he is ready to be a big strong boy, just like a firefighter we'll take all his nene's there and drop them off with the firemen. And we talk over and over about how firefighters don't use nene's. Yes, we get very over dramatic sometimes, but I have the confidence in him. What I've learned about Sam is when he's ready, he'll do it.







So, just a few days ago, as he was dressing himself up in his firefighter getup, I brought up going to the firestation. He got all excited and said, "YES, let's go!" I said okay, go get your nene's and we'll go give them to the firemen. And the conversation went like this:

Sam: "Mommy, I don't have a nene anymore."
Me: "Oh, you don't?"
Sam: "No, I'm all grown up just like the firemen at the firestation"
Me: "Oh, you are? I am so proud of you!!!"
Sam: "Thank you mommy. Now can we go?"
Me: "Well, since you're all grown up, just like the firefighters, let's go get all your nene's and put them in a bag to give to the firemen...."
Sam: "But I don't have a nene anymore!"
Me: "Allright, I'll go get them for you...." Start walking to his room...Sam came running ahead of me.
Sam: "Mommy, these arn't called nene's anymore. They are pacifiers."

Moral of the story, he IS a big boy, just like the firefighters. And, he don't have a nene anymore, instead he renamed it to pacifier just so he could go!!!!

Smart fella. But darn it!
(no worries, I did not take him...but I will when he's ready!)