No pictures to share but I do have 2 stories that I wanted to tell you about.
1. Rhonald and I always put Cole to bed together if he is home. We have a system...Rhonald reads, Cole chooses who gets to say prayers and then I sing with him. Tonight after stories we asked him who he would like to say his prayer and he said "Cole." So we smiled and said "ok, go ahead." thinking the whole time that he would not say anything. Well, we were wrong and I swear I was almost brought to tears with his little prayer. I could tell Rhonald was so proud too. It went like this, "Dear God, Jesus, God, God, God, Jesus Amen." It is awesome to see him grow in his little faith and to know that even at this young age he has a love for God that is so amazing!
2. We have been going back and forth on when to get rid of Cole's pacifiers. I mean, he is addicted and, really, so are we. We have been dreading this day for 2 years now. When I say Cole is addicted I really mean it. I have never seen Cole fall asleep without his pacifier ever. While Cole was at Mother's Day Out today I cut the ends off of all of his pacifiers. I'll be honest that I did leave 1 intact just in case. When I picked him up he asked for one so I gave it to him and he was upset. He asked for another and I gave it to him and he was even more upset. My heart was breaking but I knew in that same heart that this was the right thing to do. It took much longer to get him down for his nap than usual but he did go to sleep. Problem was he was even more mad when he woke up and had some energy! After about 40 mins he calmed down and was ok. Around dinner time he found the pacifiers I had given him and said he was throwing them away because they were broken. At bedtime, oh the dreaded bedtime, he asked for one again. I gave him another "broken" one and he looked at it and then threw it away without saying anything. After that we did our normal bedtime routine and he never mentioned his pacifiers or cried one little tear. I am so proud of him and I pray this continues!!!!!
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Yeah!!! That is a huge step for you guys, so happy for you. We just cold turkey stopped them with both Caden and Keira and I expected it to be a big deal, but they both did much better than I ever imagined. Kids are amazing!!
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