Keziah's Big Move!

I am a self-confessed worry wart. I worry about things that haven't happened yet and think the worst outcome possible. Almost always, things turn out fine.

This was the same with my anxiety about moving Keziah over to room in with her siblings to free up one of the rooms as a guest room when my folks come back sometime next year. I was worried she wouldn't sleep and that she would kick a fuss and worse disrupt the precious routine that I had trained her on since she was a baby which was sleeping early at 7.30pm.

The day came and Dan moved her cot over to Jedi and Krisalyn's room. She was grinning from ear to ear and chortling" I'm a big girl! I'm a big girl! Horray!" much to our amusement. And then she did the  unthinkable!
 

I have been trying for the longest time to wean her off her smelly pacifier which is all yucky from all the abuse from her salivary mouth. I tried cutting the teat but she still suckled on it! I gave up and just gave her a new one. All cajoling and warnings that she would look like a toothy monster wer futile against her iron will! So we were really surprised when she marched on her own to the dustbin and declared that since she is a BIG girl now, that she no longer needed her pacifier! And plonk it went to the bin. Just like that. She marched back into the room and we lifted her into her cot and she went to settle herself to sleep.

 

The nervous mother which is me, waited anxiouly outside her door and I even told Dan to just give her back her pacifier so that she could sleep but he asked me to just give it a go. And to my pleasant surprise, she really went to sleep without her pacifier and together with her siblings. She added another sweet extra for me and told me she no longer needed diapers at night. Super happy! The last step of potty training was completed. And my two biggest concerns about the pacifier and diaper were gone with the move so it was such a great great feeling! A huge load of my mind!

 

The only thing is that its now noiser in the mornings on weekends as they are all playing and squabbling earlier since now all three are together! But I realise something about my youngest, she has a will of steel! She will only do things when she herself is convinced and not because we tell her to! Need much wisdom as we parent her and I'm already worrying what her teenage years will be like!

Thank you Lord for answering our prayers about this transition and thanks Dear for staying by me and encouraging me through this. All things are possible in His name!