God gave me extra grace with my firstborn! He is remarkable! He is full of energy and pushes boundries at times, but gets a consequence and is good to go for awhile.
He went to a big boy bed smoothly, potty trained in a week at 2, sat through 1 1/2 hour dinners at the cruise that I dreaded, rarely cried when I would leave him in the nursery or toddler room, traveled wonderfully on 4 planes on the way to and from Arizona recently, so I don't know what I thought taking away his pacifier would be in the end of the world, but I did!
Since our dentist visit in March I have been dreading weaning the pacifier. I put it off until summer when I had some weeks to work on it. Then I put it off in June until we traveled to Arizona. No more! We have talked about it so David knew it was coming, but we hadn't set a date. Today we talked about how Josiah and Abigail had a party and said goodbye to their pacifiers and how he could have a special reward when he was ready to say goodbye to his too. He decided he wanted a "blue slushy from the place by the play area" (I think that is Target) So he went to nap without the pacifier totally on his own. He was with Aunt Alicia and he didn't really nap for very long (if he napped), but I figured it was better for an earlier bedtime. Tonight at dinner he told me he was going to give his pacifiers to Elizabeth and was going to bed without one. He went to bed without any fuss and is sleeping soundly. I guess he gets a blue slushy tomorrow! Maybe I shouldn't have agreed to a blue slush. I wonder how many days we have to go to Target for blue slushes before he will be content with stickers on a chart. He had m&m's everyday for a month for the potty training, but it worked! :)
I am sure we have many more challenges to come, but we are thankful for God's grace in all of them and thankful for friends and family that are praying for him tonight! My mom, some friends, and David and I prayed for a peaceful night of rest tonight. Tomorrow nap and bedtime might bring it's own challenges, but praising God for tonight!
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Ah...I had three weeks of pure torture and bad behavior with Abbie when she lost hers. That child is going to be the end of me...good thing I was pregnant with #2 before she started to show such a strong will, otherwise she would be an only child. So what was I thinking with #3?
Congrats! I knew he would be a good boy about it. :) When the time comes for miss E to give up hers....from one mother of a strong willed girl, to another.....YOU CAN DO IT!!! :-)
Seriously....two days. We just simply took it away, and that was that. You always hear stories, but don't believe everything you hear! Don't you just feel good to have the behind you? Ahhhhhhh :)
neither of our kids fussed when we randomly took them away. We told Ally we had left it at Grandma's in IA on our way home to STL. She asked if we could go back and get it. We obviously said no and that was the end.
Jason took Drew's bink when I went away for the night. I didn't know he was going to do it. I was mad since that was the last thing holding him to be my baby boy.
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