Don't say cheese

Cory has been sooooo excited about Santa Claus coming to school today. He has been talking about it and telling me what he was going to tell Santa and and he was going to ask Santa a question...."Does Santa want cookies or a pop tart on Christmas eve?" So today arrives and he goes to school all dressed up in the suit he wore when he was a ring bearer in October. Most of the school was dressed up today. They had 3 options for pictures... Santa, Menorah, or a simple snow background. So I went with Santa knowing that he was excited. When I went to pick him up at the end of the day I was informed that Cory was scared of Santa and wanted no parts of him.... They also said that Cory was the last go sit on his lap and that they basically plopped him there for a second to get the picture. I can't imagine what the picture is going to look like. I had visions of a lovely dressed child smiling sweetly and adoring at Santa like in the information packet they sent home....now I envision a snotty nosed crying boy struggling to get off of Santa's lap. Makes me glad I didn't pre-order the holiday card pack.

Tis the start of the season...

Our tree is up and decorated.

Spoke to soon

So perhaps I spoke too soon when I said the paci fairy worked...ok it still worked but after two days with no paci's he woke up today crying for it and then several hours later had a huge meltdown when he discovered the paci fairy also took all the babies paci's too when he went to look for them.

Worked

So the paci fairy thing...Works like a charm!...now if I could only find a potty fairy. LOL
He didn't ask for a paci at all today. Bedtime... not a whimper. Car ride..nothing.
We are officially paci free (well except for the 30 some paci's hidden in a backpack on the top shelf of the laundry room)..but you get the idea.

Deed is done

Could it be this easy...?? Yeah I know I am provoking the internet gods... but Cory went to sleep after crying literally less than 1 minute for his paci's when he went to bed tonight. I told him that they are gone and can't come back and he got mad and kicked and cried but was done just as quick. He actually fell right to sleep too...