All Grown Up

Lily is "officially" all grown up now. Yesterday she was playing in the den and the TV was on. During the commercial break she sees some toy that she wants and she turns to me and says, I have a great idea! I said, what? She said I'm going to give you my pappy (her pacifier that she only has to sleep with) and we can send it up to the babies in heaven and then I will be a big girl and you can buy me that toy! I told her I though that was a great idea. So she goes and gets pappy, kisses it and put it in her mouth one last time and said now you can go be with the babies in heaven. It was so sweet I wanted to cry. (The whole send it up to heaven thing came from an idea I had after seeing a kid send something up in a balloon so I figured when Lily decided to finally give it up, we could send it up attached to balloons.) So when she went down for a nap I was cautiously optimistic but she did fine. When Travis got back from Georgia last night he had his big girl a special surprise. It was a Diego submarine and octopus, she loved it! At bed time I was a little more unsure of how she would do. She talked and sang in her room for over an hour but she finally went to sleep. I couldn't believe she didn't change her mind and want it back. This morning she told me that that the babies in heaven have her pappy and she is their angel now.