Ditching the pacifier

You really LOVED your pacifier, and the attachment was getting to be too strong. You didn't need it anymore so for your second birthday we ditched the paci. We decided to do it the day after your birthday party since that was a celebration and more memorable than

I had many ideas on how to ditch it. 1. was to have you give them away to little babies who would need them. But I was really afraid you would see a baby with one and take it away. 2. was to have you physically throw them away. But I was worried that you would go fishing back in the trash to get them. 3. So we decided to just go cold turkey. I grabbed all of them put the in a ziploc bag and put them in the top of your closet in the way back. That way neither of us could get to them. :-)

The first night 11/22 went fairly well until you woke up at 4am screaming "Mine! Pacifier! Mine! Sucker! Mine!"

The second night 11/23 was a little more difficult you didn't go asleep nearly as quickly and throughout the night I would hear you say "Mine, Pacifier"

Naptime on day three was probably the hardest. By this time you hadn't been sleeping well for days and you were really cranky.

Thankfully everything seemed to go back to normal after about a week. And to help I got you a reward of a stuffed Cookie Monster. One of your favorite characters.