Day 4 No Passie

Well there is a time in a girls life when you just have to be out with the old and in with the new. And this day started about 4 days ago. Without Esther's permission, we decided to take the passie away and help her give up this oral fixation. Let me tell you it hasn't been easy, but there is light at the end of the tunnel, I hope. Our nightly ritual has become much longer, it now takes 45 minutes to get her to sleep, and I am not around during the nap time but I hear it is considerably more time. What used to be a "Get your horsey and passie and go to your room," now consist of "get you horsey and for the next hour we will fight this thing to you finally give up from exuastion and fall asleep." Mornings are not much easier. When we used to sleep till 7:30 now we have our 6:30 wake-up call of her coming to the room since she can't calm herself back to sleep.
She is being a trooper though, so is Britt. I heard that orthodontics are quite expensive so I hope that this will help so we don't have a $1k braces bill when she gets a little older. Come to think of it I just saved $1,000 bucks so I guess I ought to go buy something, I've been wanting an IPhone and that should cover it. Probably have to buy 2 since I hear there are still bugs to be worked out.