No more MAM!

Kenton and I have been talking about taking away the pacifier from Griffin. This is just a topic that we tossed around, but did not have an actual plan of attack on how to do it.

Monday night I was tending to Roman and Kenton went in to put Griffin to bed. About 10-15 minutes into the process Kenton came out and said I'll take Roman and you take Griffin. Oh and by the way I took away his "MAM." (for some reason Griffin calls his nu-nu "MAM.") You did WHAT?!? (side note~ Kenton is usually the planner. He needs to have a game plan and details before doing something) I went into Griffin's room and he was really sad. He walked around with his arms in a "where are you" motion and kept calling for his mam. He was searching high and low. He even crawled under his bed in his frantic search for mam. I stayed in with him for a bit and then Roman was ready to eat. MiMi then came in and I passed the baton to her. She layed with him until he finally fell asleep with his arm around her neck. Monday night he called for mam no less than 50 times.

Griff slept through the night and woke up on time Tuesday morning. Big Poppa got him out of bed. Griff made Big Poppa turn on the light still searching for mam. Tuesday night was easier than the previous night. He probably called for mam about 15 times. Last night was EVEN BETTER! He may have called for mam 4 times. Last night before bed Griffin found 2 of Roman's mams. I was afraid that he would claim them as his own, but he didn't! He immediately handed them over to me and said "Omen." Hopefully his is cured of his mam addiction!

I guess we just needed to rip it off like a band-aid! We are so proud of our little man! The next project will be to transition Griff from his baby bed to his big boy bed. I must admit that I am NOT ready for that yet. One thing at a time!!