Ding, Dong The Nuk Is Dead!

About a month ago Karl and I decided that we were going to get rid of Max's pacifier, which we call The Nuk.  Partly because Max was becoming awfully clingy and we were getting tired of the constand battle of him wanting it ALL the time.

So I started doing some research and found this site called "Bye Bye Binky". It was all about getting them to WANT to get rid of it on their own. It gave you a 7 day schedule on how to get rid of it. You started how poking pin holes in it, then after a few days you cut the very tip off, then each day after that you cut a little more off. What WAS supposed to happen is they would realize that it was no longer pleasurable for them and they would no longer want it.

Yeah.....nice in theory not so good in actuality. We followed all the steps and that Nuk went through hell....Karl just kept cutting and cutting and cutting. There was literally nothing left of the silicone, NOTHING my friends and that kid still wanted it. When we would read books to him before bed he would just sit and hold it in his mouth, then he would just hold it. In the last few weeks he would just sleep with it in his hands. It was almost pitiful...there was a tiny sliver of me that felt bad for him and almost caved and gave him a new one. Then I woke up and realized the horrible tantrums he would throw when we wouldn't give it to him.

This morning Karl came up with the great idea of breaking the handle part of and just laid it on the ground where we were playing and left it there for Max to find. Which of course he did. As he picked up he said, "oh no....is broken?". Karl and I both said that yes it was in fact broken, as we tried to suppress giggles we sat and watched our poor son try and put it back together. Finally Karl said that it was broke and that we should throw it away.....we sat with bated breaths.

Max looked at us, looked at the Nuk.....back at us, back at the Nuk.....then he walked over to the trash and tossed it in. Have not heard a PEEP out of him all day about it. NOT ONCE!!!! Beautiful. :)

The other bonus, we found conversion bed rails for his crib and we decided to bring the full size mattress up since we didn't have anything else to do and that kid took a nap with no crying, no banging on the door AND we put him down for the night and again no crying, no banging on the door.  Hallelujah!