Saturday, October 14, 2006
Paci update
It has been a weird day. Some good, some bad. She has not had her paci in her mouth nearly as much. When she has the "broken" paci in her mouth she drools like a son of gun. It's awful. Since she can't suck on it she just holds it in her mouth and the drool pours out. She has to shove the paci back in her mouth every ten seconds. I'm just praying that she'll tire of the hassle and set it aside.

The other thing is that when she tries to talk around it we tell her to take her paci out of her mouth when she talks. We tell her that every time. The miracle is that she usually obeys.

But I wimped out. When it was well past time for nap Popi and I brought her home. But she was being totally freaky. She got upset and was crying, kicking, screaming, flailing about. I knew it was because her broken paci was not comforting her. I couldn't hold out against that. She was so tired and pitiful. I gave her the real thing, thinking that she'd only be allowed the real thing in her crib.

The rest of the evening she asked for paci maybe once or twice. We were able to distract her each time so she forgot. After supper she turned into a total nutjob. She was bouncing off the walls, her cheeks were rosy and she was almost manic. Everyone agreed that her behavior was being affected by the lack of paci. Since she was so dependent you might expect there would be consequences.
Written at 8:59 PM by Highlandgal.
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