Bye Bye "sut"

Since before we left for vacation in July, we have been preparing and telling Silas that when we got home he was going to say goodbye to his "sut" (pacifier).  Well finally we have a nice quiet weekend, so today was the day! In the morning we gathered up all his suts and Silas put them into a bag.  When I picked him up at pre-school I had the bag with and he put his pre-school sut in the bag as well. Then we drove to the toy store where he would trade his suts in for a firetruck.  The week before, we had told him what the plan was, and asked him what he wanted to trade his suts for....he at first said "tractor"...then right after said..."no wait, a firetruck!!".  So all week he has been telling people that  "on FridayI am going with  my suts to the lady, and then I get a firetruck!" (Lady being the woman working at the toy store) I had ordered the firetruck earlier in the week so when we got to the toy store the "lady" was expecting us.  She showed Silas that there were actually quite a bit of other kids who had traded their suts there.  They were all hung up on strings in the corner.  So Silas wanted to have his suts there too.  He helped the lady put them on the string and then said "okay now I get a firetruck?!"... She came out from the back with it, and Silas was so excited.  He wanted to go home right away to show Far. He played with it non-stop until we went to swimming, and the whole way home from swimming he said. "I go home and play with my firetruck!".

When bedtime came around Søren and I were very interested to see how it would go.  At first it went really well. Silas asked for his sut, but pretty much accepted that we didn't have it anymore.  However, you could totally tell that he had a difficult time settling down and kept coming out to see what we were doing.  By 9pm he was getting really tired, and therefore was really missing his sut a lot! At one point he was crying really hard that he just wanted his sut.... I tried to get him to re-tell the story about where we went with the suts, etc and that calmed him down a bit.  I ended up putting his new firetruck  by his bed so he could touch it if he needed.  After more whining and a little crying, Silas finally fell asleep at 10:15pm.  He woke up once in the middle of the night but was able to fall asleep quickly again.

The next day at nap time he really missed his suts and was not able to sleep.  We insisted on him at least resting in his bed for an hour, and that went okay with only a few interruptions...after I finally calmed him down with a story.  Luckily Silas was still in a great mood during the day, even without his nap. And then tonight he fell asleep within 15 minutes without his sut.  In fact we actually never heard from him after his routine asking for a drink about 1 minute after you leave his room. YES! I guess he was just more tired, and already getting used to it.  Our big boy!  (PS. He also made his first poop on the potty today..he really is getting big!)