Explain the Name

Well:

• Chase is my son
• Mr. Bear is his #1 best friend
• The Sucky Thing (pacifier) is his #2 best friend

I'm not sure where I came up with "Sucky Thing". Someone just said it one day and it stuck. My best friend tried to use it for her daughter, but her husband made her stop. Probably a good idea. We get funny looks when we have a screaming kid in a store/mall/etc. and here we are saying "Hey! Where's his sucky thing?" But, I guess I look at people weird when they call it a "binky".

I think that if Chase gets to the point of recovery that he can handle a trip in the car, a nap, and going to bed without Mr. Bear and the sucky, we'd be in a really great place.

Here's a picture of a day in the life of poor Mr. Bear.