Bye Bye Paci!

One of the things that the pediatrician said yesterday was

that it is time for Micah to lose the paci. She said that it is much better now

than after Laurel comes and I agree. I am a little worried about this

transition because he has become quite dependent on it but I think he’ll do

fine. He is about to go through a lot of transitions anyways so it is good for

him to start getting used to it (with Laurel coming, potty training, and moving

to the big boy bed all happening in the coming months). She suggested that we cut

slits in the pacis and that then he wouldn’t like them. So, yesterday I cut

slits in all but 1 and of course caved and gave him that one at bedtime. This

morning, though, when he went back for his paci after he’d been awake for a

while, he found one with a slit in it. He hated it. He took it right out of his

mouth and looked at me and said “paci broken” so I told him we should go throw

it in the trash. He nodded and said “paci trash”. We put the paci in the trash

and he said “bye bye paci”. He then proceeded to do this with the rest of his

pacis! He then said “all gone paci”.

So, so far this is going well… we’ll see how it goes around nap time. :)