Monday, February 15, 2010

Bye Bye Pacifiers

Two weeks ago, Nicole willingly gave up her pacifiers and hardly even complained about it. It was quite an exciting event in our household. She had wanted a Cinderella princess polly pocket set for her birthday, but she didn't get it because she already has least two cinderella's and quite the collection of other princesses. The picture below is only a part of it. But she just loves them, she will play with them for hours at a time. So I told her that if she really wanted another cinderella, we could go to the store and buy it if she gave all her pacifiers to the store clerk. It worked like a charm. She was so excited about it! And it is so great to not be fighting about the pacifiers during the day if she finds one (she was only supposed to have them at night while sleeping). Soon after that she started showing interest in potty training and she is doing so well! She absolutely refuses to wear diapers anymore and is staying dry most of the time. I love how quickly it goes when they really want to do it.

4 comments:

Julie said...

Bribes. . . I love it. I wish it was that easy with finger-sucking!

Anonymous said...

So exciting that she is hitting all these big girl milestones. It's always nice to only have one child in diapers.

JenWright said...

Congrats on the big steps you're taking at your house. :) It's amazing what $10 will buy!

Bryce and Amy said...

I wonder if that tactic will work on Gage when it comes time to potty-train him. I'll have to try it.

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