The Nuk is Gone!!

Bud is finally falling asleep without his precious "nanni", a.k.a. the pacifier. Saturday night I decided to see what would happen if I didn't give him his nuk at bedtime. He ended up talking for 45 minutes before I gave it to him and then he feel asleep. His schedule was off during the day Saturday so I really shouldn't have even tried. Sunday night during our bedtime routine he asked for the nanni and I told him that he is a big boy now and only babies get nuks (I'd been telling him for a few weeks that he really didn't need the nuk). He pouted but didn't really cry. I had a pillow in his bed that Grandma T. made him (it's his favorite right now, has Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, & Piglet on it) and I gave him his Beanie Baby Eagle. He didn't fuss much and fell asleep! Yesterday he wouldn't take his afternoon nap (we don't know if he just wasn't tired or if it was because he didn't have his nanni) but then last night he fell asleep with no problem. I think now we are going to have to remember to take the pillow and Eagle when we have overnight trips!

Another new thing...I put his alphabet magnets in order on the fridge and Bud properly recognized the W, X, and O! A couple of times he has said a complete sentence using "I", like "I dropped it."

This morning I heard him crying when I got out of the shower and found out that he had heard some sirens and got scared. He told BV, "Ambulance car, sirens, scared" and he had actually been crying with tears. We didn't even know he knew the word ambulance let alone what it is! I told him that he shouldn't be scared when he hears sirens, that ambulances are there to help people. We can tell he's really learning his emotions right now because he's so dramatic!

He's now 20 months old and we can't believe he'll be 2 years old in only 4 months!

Effective Discipline

We have a dining room chair next to the refridgerator to keep Bud from touching the back of the fridge. Last night he kept climbing up in the chair and making us nervous by sitting on the edge of the chair and acting like he was just going to climb off that way (we want him to turn around and go on his belly). So after telling him not to get in the chair and him disobeying we removed the chair. Then he went right for the back of the fridge and touched it again after we told him not too. So B took him in his room, put him in his megasaucer and told him what he had done wrong and what we wanted him to do. We left him there for 1.5 minutes and when I brought him out he started repeating what B had told him and pointing at the back of the fridge. And he stayed away the rest of the night!

Bud has this word he says, shabas (at least that's how it sounds) and I asked a professor what that means in Hebrew and he said it means the Sabbath. Either Bud made it up or he heard it somewhere! Whenever I ask him what it means he answers, "some."

He has been playing pretend quite a bit lately. A few times over the weekend he baked a cake, put a candle on top and sang happy birthday! I didn't even know he knew that song and all of a sudden he was singing it. Crazy.

K :D