Caelin is one month strong without a pacifier! She kicked her habit in ONE DAY on October 7th! She was the easiest I have ever heard of. Basically Gamee told her during one nap time that all her pacifiers were missing. They went on a hunt, looked under bed, and then decided she should just take a nap without it...AND SHE DID! We did the same thing that night. Now the first 3 nights she cried for an average of 20-30 minutes and we had to wait out the torture, but after that, we were in business. In the last few days, she has found a few paci's at the bottom of her toy bin, but she was not interested in them after a minute or so. Yahoo, done deal!
Now, our thumb sucking for Cade, well, we are working on it. 3 nights ago, we read the book Thumb Love, and started our battle with the thumb. I must say, it appears to be a MUCH bigger battle. Perhaps we waited too long, but we will still win. Eventually. The book is helpful and has funny things Cade laughed at. The girl in the book, Lulu, creates a "12 step program" and works to stop sucking her thumb. We have been reading the book each night and talking about all the negative things that go with thumb sucking. So far, Cade will listen, but mostly makes up excuses as to why he cannot stop right now. The method we are trying is to wear our really cool glow-in-the-dark skeleton gloves to bed. The gloves cannot be taken off by himself, so he can keep them on all night. He whines a little, but we remind him that every morning he wakes up with the gloves on, he earns a letter towards a reward. So, we are doing all we can to kick this habit. The tough times are now during the day time or watching TV. Since it is not the coolest thing to wear skeleton gloves all day, we just have to remind him throughout the day. That is when we get the struggle of crying and whining and the "STOP telling me those unkind words!" Guess we will just hang in there. Pray for us as we tackle this habit for Cade!
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