danieljohnson

Daniel has slept with a pacifier since he was an infant. Us parents decided that it was time to say goodbye to them at Christmas at the age of 3,5. So we told Daniel this a couple of months before and said that we would wrap the pacifiers in Christmas paper and give the Christmas gift to Santa so he can give them to babies that actually need them. ( Don't get all disgusted about recycling pacifiers. We didn't really give them to anybody. Don't tell Daniel, but we told him a lie...). Daniel took this pretty well, we thought. And so on Christmas Eve, Daniel and I wrapped his pacifiers
  
and when Santa came, we gave him a Christmas gift as well.
And then there was bedtime. Oh My God! It took me over two hours to get him to sleep. The same thing has happened since then. We're down to 45 minutes up to an hour now, so I guess it's progress. But it sucks either way. I've heard that kicking a habit is a lot easier if you replace the habit with something else. Daniel must've heard this too. His new habit is babbling away in bed about everything and nothing. The subject doesn't seem to matter as long as he hears his own voice. It doesn't really matter either if there's somebody in his room or if he's by him self. Either way he's got a lot to say. I have to say that we all sometimes miss the pacifiers, but Santa took them, so we're going to have to tough it out.