Bye Bye Birdies

Meet the birdies....they have been a friend to Bree the past four years. From the day we brought her home from the hospital. They have been with her for every nap and bedtime.



They were her first little friends she ever had. I never imagined how much she would depend on the music for her to go to sleep. Everytime she goes to bed she reaches up and turns them, sometimes the run multiple times a night until she is ready to go to sleep. Chris and I always joked she would go to college with these as we thought of how hard it will be to have her give them up. Imagine my suprise when just the other day Bree climbed in my lap and told me she wanted her birdies out of her room. My eyes got really big and I looked at her and I said are you sure. She said " yeah, big girls don't have birdies" and I told her I agree. Then she hopped off my lap and went on. I looked at Chris and said okay I believe it when this happens.



We went through our normal bedtime rountine that night, after bath we were in her rooming getting her pj's on when she said "Mommy, please take my birdies out of my room" I again asked if she was sure and she said yes. So I went over and took them off of her headboard. I put them in the hall closet because I just knew that when it came to going to sleep she would start asking for them. She proved me wrong, bedtime rolled around and she went straight to sleep even slept through the night no problems. It has been 5 days without the birdies and she has not asked once for them. I am beyond amazed. Our little girl is growing up. No more birdie music will be heard in our house. :( I am thankful she decided on her own to give them up.