Stolen Idea/the great paci debate

I stole this idea from a friend who stole it from another friend ...Thanks Sara and Sara's friend :)
I started this blog not too long ago and just haven't been able to get it really started. I keep thinking "I don't have anything to blog about". "I will blog when something great happens, then I'll have something to write about". Well  I have decided that if I wait for something big or great to happen I may never blog again hahaha. Seriously I need to recognize the great things that happen in my life everyday. SO I am going to do a picture a day blog for the month of April. Each day there will be a new picture and a new blog...I can't promise anything fantastically hilarious will happen, or that some major event in my life will be blogged about...This is just an everyday account of ordinary things that happen in my daily life. Things that I am extraordinarily blessed to be a part of each day.  I also have the added problem of being long winded, scatter brained and random :) Through this I will have ONE thing to focus on.

Without further ado here is my picture for today

I think we have a serious paci addiction problem!!

I know my son is getting closer and closer to three years old (which makes me want to burst into tears) and more and more people feel the need to make comments like "give me that paci, your not a baby" or "your too big for that paci' or  (being down right rude) "It's about time you got rid of that don't you think"? YES YES people I KNOW he's too big for a paci, but he is so darn addicted to that thing I am NOT looking forward to taking it away. He's not old enough to understand why I am taking it away he would think I was just being mean. Every time we talk about being a big boy he responds with I'm not a big boy I'm Little!!" Plus I am NOT int he habit of punishing MYSELF! hahaha 

I keep setting different times for taking the paci away, but something always come up. I SWORE I would take it away only let him have it at night when he transitioned into a big boy bed. Well he's been in a big boy bed since Dec 26th and he still has that paci ALL DAY. I have tried to make it a sleep time only thing but when I take one away he finds one somewhere in the house I swear it's like magic!! (It makes me wonder if that is why I can only find two of the ten pacis we own...he's hording them somewhere!!) When I try to limit the time he has with his paci I can always come up with a reason why he needs it. I would say he could have it a night,or  in the car, or if we were out somewhere, and of course I give it to him when he is screaming over and over I want my paci, pcai mamma I need my paci!!!  really upset it calms him down....okay the list keeps getting longer and leaves NO TIME WITHOUT THE PACI hahaha 

I know I need to bite the bullet and take it away, but it is sooo hard and now to make it worse he has decided he is afraid of the shadows in his room and is not sleeping very well at all. I feel we need to get through this before I take the only thing that helps him self soothe away. However, once this has passed I'm sure there will be another reason not to do it and another and another. At this point I'm not sure who is more addicted to the paci, William...or me!!