Kyle is finally off the pacifier!
He has been asking less & less for his pacifier and these few days, he has been sleeping without it. I can't tell you how happy I am. It has been so hard weaning him off the pacifier. Sleepless nights, endless crying and tantrums thrown just for that little piece of what my daddy calls 'candu' or drug. Yes, Kyle is so addicted to it that at one point, he used to need 2 pacifiers, one for the mouth, and one to hold & fiddle with!
When Kyle was born, I actually refused to give him a pacifier, but after sleepless nights, I caved in and so whenever he cries, I would just push the pacifier in his mouth, and he would sleep contentedly. And of course that works very well for me also, as I was also deprived from sleep.
Three years on, he is still on the pacifier. His teachers managed to kick his habit in school, but whenever he comes home, he would start sucking on those dastardly pacifiers again!
So I decided enough of enough. One day I hid his pacifiers and told him that his teacher told me to throw his pacifiers because he is a big boy and his friends do not suck on pacifiers anymore. Of course he did not buy that and searched the whole house for it. He even took Kyra's pink pacifier just to satisfy his habit! After telling him that he does not look handsome, and he is far too clever to be seen with a pacifier, he relented and went to sleep without one!
That whole process repeated itself for a week, before he officially does not ask for his pacifiers anymore :) At times he still remembers and ask for it, but rarely. And also another piece of good news, Kyle has stopped drinking from his bottle :) He now takes milk in a cup :)
Now, the next thing for me to do is to brush up on his toilet training. He tends to forget that he is not wearing diapers while playing, and he would unconsciously pee-pee in his shorts. I hope he can stop wearing diapers altogether soon! So wish me luck!
