Paci - FREE!

It has been one week since Chance and I took a big gulp and attempted to get Luke to give up his Pacifier. I had been dreading the day for a very long time and though I've know for awhile now that we need to get rid of it, we just couldn't get ourselves to take away Luke's favorite thing in the whole world! Not to mention, we were scared to death of the havoc it would reek on Luke's sleeping!

I am still in shock, but I am overjoyed to announce that Luke has been free of his paci for a week now. And He has slept the last two nights, without a hitch. He has taken a couple naps too!

We sort of did it on a whim. He wanted a "Mac" truck so Chance and I told him he could have it if he gave us his paci's - and he would never ever get them again. We weren't really sure if he would go for it. But after having "one more" nap with his paci's he came downstairs holding them out, took one last suck and then handed them over. That night, amazingly he fell asleep without a complaint of no paci. But then.... he woke up in the middle of the night crying, "I don't want to be a big boy anymore!!!!" It was so sad. I brought him into bed with us and was soooo close to giving in cause he was so upset, but we managed to quiet him down enough to have Chance tell him a couple stories. He ended up falling asleep for the rest of the night. It was the same thing for 3 or 4 more nights. Never complained until the middle of the night or early morning. Every once in awhile before bed he'd ask, "But where ARE my paci's?" We just kept telling him he traded them in for Mac and that he was a big boy now. I've decided we are in the clear today when I overheard him say, "Yeah Nate, that's a paci." I was mortified to hear these words as I thought I had removed all trace of paci's, but when I got to his room I saw Nate holding a smaller paci - that must have been stashed away in a toy somewhere. And Luke never said anything to me about his paci's!! What a BIG BOY!!!! Good job Luke!