So long, dear friend

I can't believe I haven't posted about this yet!! But we've been busy, as you can tell from my multiple blog posts recently...

Anyways, big news around these parts: Nate has FINALLY retired his passy!!! (Insert: lots of applause and a huge sigh of relief from myself. I thought he was going to go to kindergarten with that thing.)
As you can see, his passy was looking a LITTLE rough. He had finally bit that thing down to the core, and about a month ago, decided HE wanted to throw it in the trash. Of course, Greg & I were MORE than happy to hear this, but didn't have high hopes that he'd even make it thru the night without it. Well he did, and minus a few slip-ups in Johnson City that we won't go into :), he has been passy-free for almost a month!!!

It has been quite the process, trying to rid him of these pacifiers. As a newborn, he'd sleep with 4-5 in his crib at a time, b/c he kept throwing them out and waking up etc. Then, we got it down to 2 passys. At 18 months old, we stopped carrying around a passy during the day and only let him have the two at naptime and bedtime. When he hit 2 years old, we had to stop the naptime passys b/c he was starting MDO. Not a problem. And though I had all intentions of weaning him off that last bedtime passy before Abby arrived, as you all know, that didn't happen since Miss A made an early appearance. We actually backtracked and he began getting it at naptime too (not really sure how that one happened....I think I just wanted to ensure that he had a good, long nap when Abby was an infant b/c Lord knows I needed that time)!

So as you can see, getting rid of the passy has been in the making for 1.5 yrs. What a process! Luckily, Abby is not as attached to the passy as Nate was from the beginning, so hopefully we can wean her a lot sooner....fingers crossed....