Kids Biz – Getting Messy, Creating Art & Visits from The Dummy Fairy

Last year I made a call to The Dummy Fairy to chat about our situation. She agreed the time was coming but as we were about to leave and move overseas that perhaps we should wait until things had settled down nicely.

Finally, the time had come. When we were out with friends the previous week FB had really loved a toy camera her little friend had. FB talked nonstop about this camera and I thought this was a great opportunity to empower FB to get rid of her dummies. I mentioned to FB that The Dummy Fairy had contacted me to discuss getting rid of the dummies as she had been watching over FB to make sure the time was right. FB’s eyes widened with curiosity. You could see her little mind ticking over ‘Fairy!’ you could hear her exclaim in her head. I explained that The Dummy Fairy came when the child was ready and collected up all of the dummies and turned them into toys for boys and girls. In exchange she would leave FB a special gift. If FB told me what sort of toys she liked, I would pass that information on to The Dummy Fairy so she knew what to make with all her old dummies. Well, FB thought this was a delightful idea and agreed that while ‘I will be sad sometimes and miss my dummies, I will be alright’. FB said she wanted a pink camera and excitedly told her brother about it at her first opportunity. I explained that I would let The Dummy Fairy know that now was a good time and she would travel from Australia so to keep an eye out for her over the coming days.

Sure enough, one morning we found a special letter on the window sill in the children’s room from The Dummy Fairy. She said in three days FB was to collect all her dummies and put them in a bag on the front door mat. The Dummy Fairy would pick them up and leave a gift.

On the third day, before bed, FB ran around the house searching every nook and cranny to find all of her dummy’s, including her secret stashes she didn’t think I knew about. Very thoughtfully she found the best place on the door mat to sit the bag. A tender ‘good-bye’ was made and it was off to bed for a long and quiet sleep.

On the morning FB found her gift at the front door, the dummies long gone. The house was filled with excitement as FB exclaimed ‘The Dummies are INSIDE my CAMERA!’ With that, the attachment to her dummies was broken.

Just some feedback for the Fairy. She probably should have sourced the fairy dust to turn the dummies into a pink camera before leaving the letter. I guess she didn’t realise that shopping for toys, sorry fairy dust supplies here in Manila is just not as easy as back in Australia. The Fairy was very very exhausted after two days of strategically running around various shops to find the required item. It was amazing though, that a pink camera meeting FB’s specifications was actually ‘created’. Interestingly it was the only camera that could be ‘created’. I, sorry The Dummy Fairy was trying to ‘create’ a Frozen camera like FB’s little friend had, because it was really awesome, but alas it was not possible. Funny how things work out in the end.