Ok so when we were back in Chicago one of the girls told me about this thing she did with her little boy and getting rid of his binkies. The idea was to go to build a bear let him pick out a bear and have him buy it with his binkies. Well for some reason I always remembered that, and now I can tell you that it works! Well, at least it did for us except we did it with Addi's sippy cups. 
Since Addi was one she's used a sippy cup like it was a bottle. She needed it everywhere. Well we decided that in order for her to quit she had to go cold turkey, no more! We let her use it up until we went to state wrestles. We went to the build a bear store on Friday and let her pick out what she wanted but we didn't buy it yet. She was so excited! The next day we took her bag of sippy cups and built the bear.
She loved it! She wanted to do everything, and they were so nice.
She even got to do the stuffing. She really thought it was the coolest thing.
This is her picking out a heart! They had her kiss it before she put the heart in the bear. The people working there really do a good job.
I warned the lady at the pay stand so she let Addi give her the sippy cups and Addi walked away with the bear before I paid so that she thought she really did buy it! Addi was so proud of herself. I feel bad I didn't get a picture of her sippy cups.
Well this is the final product. It's a cute bear, but if I were picking one out this would definitely not have been it. They have so many cute things in there it's unbelievable, but Addi's favorite color is blue so this is perfect for her! Well needless to say the first thing she says after we had eaten and were on our way back to Delta was "I don't want my bear, I want my sippy cups!" I thought for sure my great ideas was not going to work, but since our ride home, and a little but the next day at church, she hasn't even mentioned her sippy cups. She doesn't really play with the bear either, but it was a good distraction for a couple of days. She really is getting so big. She's even finally potty trained. She hasn't wet the bed or her panties yet, and it's been a week since she started going all the time with panties. She has pooped in her panties a couple of times so we got to get the hang of that,but she's doing better! No more diapers for her! YEAH!!! Next thing were going to work on is getting her to sleep in her bed without making it a major ordeal to get her to sleep! She never wants to go to bed and it's driving me crazy. Jake's working nights so I have to do it every night by myself and I hate it. I'm pretty sure she thinks I'm the meanest mom ever. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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That's a cute idea for getting rid of sippy cups, I never would have thought of something like that.
About the bed time thing, I recently read a book called "Healthy sleep habits, healthy children" (I was having a hard time with my kids getting to sleep and sleeping all night) and it says that most kids don't get enough sleep and that a lot of times they won't go to bed because they are overly tired. It suggests you put them to bed as early as 6:30 or 7 but I just started putting mine to bed at 7:30 and it was just like flipping a switch, they went right to sleep, I couldn't believe it, we haven't had any more problems and it has been wonderful for me as well because I finally have some ME time. Anyway, you might want to give it a try.
That is so exciting! Dont you love it when they decide they want to be big girls. Zoey did really good at going to the potty for a long time but then she got sick and just wanted a diaper, its been back and forth ever since. Hopefully you have better luck!
HEY! Glad it worked (kind of). That actually happened to Bridger too but now he loves his bear and remembers that he paid for it himself with his binkies! For a little while though he told us we could take it back and get his binkies. HAHA. We just told him we couldn't do that. That worked. Anyway- I hope the sleep thing goes well. I agree with the over tired thing... if Bridger is too tired it is always a battle.
So I don't have any suggestions but I think that is the cutest idea ever! I love it!
What a cute idea... I will have to remember that and use it in the future!! She is so cute and I am glad that it worked!! Hooray, that she is potty trained too... that is awesome and such a relief for you!!
That is a WAY cute idea Ash! I HAVE to remember that!! :)
About the sleeping thing... That is how Madison was! She never wanted to go to sleep.
What I started doing is putting her to bed at seven thirty. I would read her one book and then sing her three songs. I would let her pick out which songs she wanted. Then we would say her prayers! It really helped her to know that I was taking that time to be with her before she went to sleep.
I made a routine out of it. I think consistency is the best thing when it comes to anything with your kids.
Good Luck!!!
Yes me & Kenzie Rich are going. It'll be so fun. I'm taking a mini-roadtrip to St. George this weekend, are you guys going to be around?! If you are, let's get together!!
Hey Dave told me that he talked to you at the career fair. Your kids are so dang cute. I was looking at your other entries and saw that that the wrestling picture has a picture of both my brothers! I thought that was funny. I will have to add you guys to our blog. It will be fun to keep up with you guys.
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