Old habits die hard.
Yes, our almost 3.5 year old still loved her gakas at naptime and
bedtime. We have been talking about
taking them away for the last 1.5 years but we could always find a convenient
excuse i.e. we have a really long road trip to Missouri coming up, we will want
them for the plane ride to Florida, etc.
For some reason Susie and I had it in our heads that it would be a
nightmare to get her to sleep without them and that the whole weekend would be
a horrible mix of crying and whining—what we got was quite the opposite. We told her she needed to bag them up and put
them in the mailbox and the Gaka Fairy would come pick them up and bring them
to other babies that needed them and in return she would leave a present for Maggie
in the mailbox--for being such a big girl.
The first night was easy, she was so excited to leave them in the mailbox
for the Fairy. The second night when it got to be bedtime she asked for one
back.—we stayed strong and by the 3rd or 4th night she
had forgotten about them completely and never asked for them again. Now she always says “Only Tommy takes gakas,
gakas are for babies”.
The best part is that Susie and I forgot to take them out of
the mailbox and hide them in the house—so not sure what the mailman thought
when he opened up the mailbox and found a bag of gakas. Then when we finally did remember to grab them, we stashed them in the console of the car—while in Missouri, Maggie is climbing around in the car digging through
everything while we were waiting for Susie, who was shopping, and Maggie finds
the bag of gakas and asks why the Fairy put them in our car…. :)
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