Ok, please don’t judge me.\u00a0 Yes, Josiah will be 4 in June.\u00a0 And yes, he still uses a pacifier at naptime and bedtime.\u00a0 Until very recently, I didn’t care.\u00a0 I just love finally getting some decent sleep, and really… why mess with that?\u00a0 But before we see the dentist in May, I figured we’d better be done with the pacifier, so I don’t get another raised-eyebrow-look.<\/p>\n
Josiah and I had decided this weekend we’d be done with the ‘fiers’ as he calls them.\u00a0 Brian was away on Sunday, and as we neared bedtime, I reminded him that we were going to get rid of them, and that he and I were going to Toys ‘R Us the next day to find something to celebrate him being a big boy.\u00a0 We were ok for a while, but right at bedtime, after a long day, he unraveled into coughing and tears.\u00a0 He’s been sick for a couple weeks, and when push came to shove, I gave in… sort of.<\/p>\n
I tossed 2 pacifiers, and took the remaining 2 in the kitchen and quickly poked holes in them.\u00a0 They don’t suck right when they have a hole, and he tells me to throw them away, because “they’re broken”.\u00a0 So I gave them to him as he was laying down in bed, and just as I’d hoped, the first pacifier didn’t work, and I told him I’d throw it away.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the 2nd pacifier worked ok, so I guess the whole I poked wasn’t big enough.<\/p>\n
So, we’re not quite free of the pacifier.\u00a0 And I could push the issue.\u00a0 But we’re down to one, and who knows how long it will be around.\u00a0 I keep warning him that if it gets lost, that’s it… we’re done.\u00a0 And it has a hole in it, so I’m sure it’s not going to work much longer.<\/p>\n
I’ll keep you posted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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