[August 21, 2007—
Dummy]
Oliver, ever since he was born, has sucked on a dummy when he sleeps. Having created this dependency, neither K nor myself have been inclined to tackle the resulting problems—dummies falling out of bed; dummies going missing; dummies falling apart—because the consequences of having no dummies seemed even grimmer.
Now, Oliver has helped us, though perhaps not himself, by chewing holes in every dummy in the house. He slept fine last night. Nap time today, however, was a bit different. For one hour, he yelled, at the top of his lungs: NO MORE DUMMIES. DON'T EAT THE DUMMIES.
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I'm so glad that someone else is having this problem. We are in a similar situation with Auto. He likes his "DEE DEE". We like his DEE DEE, because lots of DEE DEE's equal a very happy Auto! Except Auto also likes to bite holes in his DEE DEE's. He thinks they have owies, and wants me to kiss them and make them better. I tried to explain that mommy's kissing powers only apply to little boys and not to plastic objects. He did not understand, but instead said "Glue Please."
We have also found that replacing DEE DEE's can be very expensive, as well as time consuming because Auto is somewhat of a DEE DEE snob and only likes a particular kind, the most expensive kind. We have not reached the no DEE DEE's left point, but as we are not replacing them, and neither of the other boys care for them, it is coming. I will report back on how it all works out.
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I'm so glad that someone else is having this problem. We are in a similar situation with Auto. He likes his "DEE DEE". We like his DEE DEE, because lots of DEE DEE's equal a very happy Auto! Except Auto also likes to bite holes in his DEE DEE's. He thinks they have owies, and wants me to kiss them and make them better. I tried to explain that mommy's kissing powers only apply to little boys and not to plastic objects. He did not understand, but instead said "Glue Please."
We have also found that replacing DEE DEE's can be very expensive, as well as time consuming because Auto is somewhat of a DEE DEE snob and only likes a particular kind, the most expensive kind. We have not reached the no DEE DEE's left point, but as we are not replacing them, and neither of the other boys care for them, it is coming. I will report back on how it all works out.