Zoë the Pacifier Bandit
Dad here.
A couple of days ago Gena went to pick Zoë up at daycare and Zoë was crawling around the floor with a pacifier in her mouth. When she was just a newborn we would offer her a pacifier only when she was really upset (they can interfere with breast feeding so it was always a last resort) and she never really took to it. So Gena asked why they were giving her one.
They said they didn't give it to she stole it from another baby. Apparently she does this all the time but they claim she usually just grabs them and doesn't put them in her mouth. She uses her mouth to carry things when she's crawling so that's probably why she had it in her mouth that time.
Gena was a little skeptical of the explanation and wondered if she wasn't just grabbing them off the floor. This morning I got confirmation that our little girl is, in fact, a pacifier bandit. I set her on the floor when I dropped her off and then went to fill out her sheet. She crawled up to a newborn who was laying on the floor with a pacifier in her mouth and just yanked it away from her. The problem was that this baby's pacifier was on a string that was attached to the baby's shirt. So Zoë's getaway was thwarted. The poor little newborn had no idea what was going on as Zoë was yanking on the pacifier trying to get away with it until I intervened.
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