Fie Bear

Two years old has always been the time to say goodbye to our good friend, the pacifier here at the Welch house. We decided to take Rylee to Build a Bear and let her make her own teddy bear and put her pacifier inside. I didn't know exactly how this would go.....She was very excited to pick out her bear. She didn't like the stuffing machine because it was pretty loud. Then we told her to say goodbye and put her pacifier inside. She went with the program and tucked it inside. Then she watched them sew him up and gave it an air bath. All in all it was a happy day.....until it was nap time and she wanted her pacifier and we handed her the teddy bear. We reminder her that her pacifier was inside. She just looked at us with her saddest face and kept saying, "open, open".

We have always called her pacifier just a pacifier, but she shortened that to "fie". So we named her bear "Fie Bear". She was really only sad that first nap time and then she caught on pretty quick that she could snuggle her new bear and her favorite blanket and be pretty happy. She really loves that Fie Bear!