Ohhh I have dreaded this process. I know it has been time for a while, for Judson to bid fare well to his pacie, but he LOVED it soooo much. And lets face it, he wasn't a good sleeper with it, I was scared to see how he would be WITHOUT it. When Judson was born, Cole decided on his own that he would throw his away. I think he had one or two cries about it and it was OVER...easy with no torment or torture. I didn't for see this going that well.
I have asked several people about the best way to do this. We decided his real problem was that he had no boundaries with it, he always had it. We were down to one pacie and NOT buying more. So I ended up tying it to his bed with a short shoe string, that way if he needed it he must be in his bed. The first two nights I didn't sleep well thinking he could get tangled up but he never did. And he adjusted so easily to traveling and not having it all day! I was so proud of him...when he was asked about his pacie he would say "we roped my pacie to my bed." He is infatuated with his rope right now so it worked perfectly.
Fast forward to this past Monday night...when he came down with a horrible tummy bug. So the first night he got sick in his bed I stripped it down including the roped pacie and threw it in the washer. But I decided to hide it in the drawer instead of putting it back on the bed. Of course he noticed immediately...and had a few melt downs and asked many times what had happened to it. I explained we had to throw it away because it was nasty now. I felt bad taking it away in such a hard time and believe me, he has had a bad week with this bug. But today he told me he was big and didn't need it anymore and wondered when the baby in my tummy would want one!!
👍 So proud of our big boy!!!
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