I was laying in bed the other day and thought how am I ever going to get Addison to stop using her bum bum? I am the kind of mom that has a hard time taking things away from the little ones. I felt so bad when I told her she could not have it. Well my great and wonderful idea was to go to build a bear and have her put her bum bum in to a bear so that at night I would not feel bad because I had nothing to give her when she cried. I thought that I was so smart! Then I come to learn that parents have been doing this for years. So needless to say I am not the great and wonderful mom that comes up with the best idea ever. That is all right with me because even thought I was not the first mom to come up with this idea it stilled worked. Addison was so excited to get a new bear. They lady working there made me laugh. She said that I am the only mom that she has seen that had the kid take the bum bum right out of their mouth and put it into the bear. What can I say sometimes the band-aid method works the best.
The first night was a little hard. I sworn that I would walk in her room and find the massacre of the bear. Millions of pieces of bear laying ever where and Addison sleeping happily next to the carnage with the spoils of her bear war. Much to my surprise when I heard her crying in her room I walked in to find her digging at her bear trying to open it but he was still intact. I explained to her that now she was a big girl and that bum bum bear was going to help her to sleep. After that night it has been smoothed sailing. She takes Bum Bum Bear everywhere with her and they are the best of friends.
