The Getschers: The "Faca" Fairy

Sunday, January 20, 2008

The "Faca" Fairy

No big news except for this... Yesterday we finally took a big step and decided to take Ethan's pacifier away. Before then, he only got it strictly at bed time. Anyways, so the Faca (that's what Ethan calls pacifier) Fairy came the other night. We put all of his pacifiers into a decorated box, put it under the bed, and had him thoroughly convinced that a fairy was going to come during the night, take his pacifiers to babies who needed them, and replace it with a very cool toy. And he is doing so so so well without it! We were dreading it and didn't do it earlier because we thought it would be a fight, but he's done perfectly well! Yay Ethan!

4 comments:

mary said...: Good job! I had no idea Ethan still took a pacifier, and that is a great idea to have a fairy come replace them. I guess that works because he is a little older. What a clever idea.; 6:55 PM
The Stanford Bunch said...: What a great idea Leah!!! And good job Ethan!; 9:02 AM
Sarah and Doug said...: Your son is so adorable Shmee!! He is so big!! Any others in the future? I miss u!; 4:19 PM
Lewis Family said...: Good job! That's what did it for Jess' daughter, Sydney, too. Congrats!!; 4:42 PM

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Ethan's Expressions

10/17/10 Mark came home from a church fireside and Ethan said, "How many fireworks did you see?"
10/1/10 Ethan came home from school and said they made a scarecrow but then said they didn't make it with any "scares" in it.
7/1 Ethan was playing with his good friend Addison outside. Eliza was giving Addison big, cheesy, flirty smiles and, even worse, was blowing kisses at him. I then asked her if she wanted to kiss Addison and she nodded her head yes. Boy crazy already! Ahh!
7/1 Mark was talking about Chris King hubs for your bike which supposedly are the best and, in his words, will outlast the bike rider. Ethan said, "Chris King hubs won't outlast Jesus since Jesus never dies." Smart boy.
12/29 "Eliza thinks Rudolph the Reindeer is HER reindeer." He often comes up with silly things that Eliza "says" like this. He has often told me that Eliza thinks she's a mommy and always is telling him what to do.
12/15 Mark said he would take Ethan on splits with the missionaries if Ethan ate all of his dinner. Ethan said, "Great! But I don't like it (dinner, that is)." He said this about 3:00 before I even started thinking about what we would have for dinner.
12/14 Ethan likes to get into Eliza's crib and play quite often when they're supposed to be sleeping. One night we went to check on them at 10:30 PM (!!) and they were still awake, playing. He excitedly exclaimed to Eliza as we walked in, "It's a miracle we're still awake!!" And then proceeded to ask us, "Is it morning time?"
12/13 Ethan asked me if he could draw all over his body. I cautioned him against it, saying that his body was a temple and that we wouldn't be drawing on the walls of the temple. I wanted him to make his own choice... he thought about it for a while and then asked, "Well then, can I draw a temple on my body?" Smart boy.