Yes, he is a character. We took this picture one night when he thought that he was pretty cool that he got TWO pacifiers in his mouth at once. Remember that face when I tell you about the trauma that we brought about a few short weeks later.
Earlier this week, Matt and I decided that we would take away Eston's well loved pacifiers. This was great in theory. We decided we were going to take the pacifier away over a month ago, but then he learned to get out of his bed, and then we went out of town, and then . . . . yeah, we kept putting it off. So Monday out of the blue we decided to quite delaying and do it. (We didn't want to have the kid that was 3 years old, sucking on a pacifier, and taking it out to speak an entire sentence.)
We were horrible. I went into Eston's room and grabbed the THREE pacifiers that we owned and started to carry them to my room to hide them. Eston was in my arms the entire time. He grabbed one and got to suck on it for about 20 seconds. After tossing the other two pacifiers in our room, I took the one in his mouth out and handed it to Matt. Matt was waiting for us with scissors. While Eston was in my arms, and looking right at Matt, Matt took the pacifier and snipped off the sucking part so that only the handle remand, and then handed it back to Eston. We didn't think any of this through and ended up giving that boy trauma for the rest of his life.
We went to lay him down and he screamed forever ( I can't give a real time, because Nana is reading this and will tell me we are cruel if he cried for even 5 minutes.) Matt went in to console him and he kept trying to get Matt to fix the pacifier that he had broke. Eventually, we realized that you shouldn't send your child to bed with the broken pacifier. After about 3 days he is doing better and we have minimal problems. Let this be a lesson to anyone reading this, that you should never be horrible like Matt and I were. Sorry Eston!!!
7 comments:
Oh, poor Eston! We didn't have any binkie lovers so I have never had to deal with the withdrawls, BUT I currently have a 2 1/2 old thumb sucker...I'm not sure how we are going to solve that one...we definitely can't cut his finger off :)
You defiantly have to keep that darling picture in mind when reading your post. I love the part how he wanting his daddy to fix it and make everything better.
Hey Brynn. You can officially add me now. It took me a while to get things set up, but I'm now ready to commit.
Eston is so adorable.
I got your wedding announcement in the mail. I was so excited, I can't even tell you. Greg couldn't really understand it, but it didn't matter. I laughed. I'm even giving it fridge time.
So congratulations, I'm happy for you both. You will make the cutest couple and have beautiful children. Let's hear it for Eternity :)
I'm proud of you, i tried it for one night and after about 2 hours of bloody murder screaming i gave in. I'm just accepting that aspen will probably go to kindergarten with her binki
I'd say you got your message across.
Talk about traumatizing your kid! just kidding! I think you need to do what you need to do so they can become more independent, which is healthy for them to do. So way to go on parenting Matt and Brynn!
poor baby
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