Our deal with our 2 yr old

Karis started noticing that Mommy and Chali and Jee, and just about every other female (Daddy as well though) all have earrings. So for the last couple of weeks she has been asking if she can get her ears pierced. Of course, we had no problem with that just haven't had the time. So in our battle to get rid of soo-soo (pacifier) I came up with the idea of letting her get her ears pierced if she threw away her soo-soos. I told her big girls get their ears pierced and big girls don't have soo-soos. She agreed whole heartedly. So we began the soo-soo disposal...

That was yesterday. As you can imagine, there was no nap after that. =) Bedtime was in Mommy and Daddy's bed and I laid down with her until she fell asleep which was in about 10 seconds. But no fuss. I moved her to her bed and she slept through the night. She woke in the morning yelling for soo-soo, but we quickly changed the conversation. Chali told me "Hey Mom, I have something to tell you. I found a soo-soo behind the bed and I almost kept it because I was gonna give it to her if she woke up in the middle of the night." Haha! Chali didn't want Karis to wake her up.

So, we met Daddy today at lunchtime and Karis got her ears pierced!

Of course, again there was no nap today and she whined for soo-soo a few times. She told Jee and I "No I want my ears pierced anymore. I want soo-soo." Whenever she puts no in front of I want, it means I don't want. But we showed her that soo-soo was in the big trash can and she'd could wave goodbye to them again, but they weren't coming back out. She seemed to be ok with that. Tonight at bathtime, she told me once again she didn't want her ears pierced anymore. But after bath she said "I wanna see my pretty headband and earrings in the mirror." So I picked her up and held her in front of the mirror. She cocked her head and said, "I keep my earrings. I like them." Put her to bed with Chali and she asked for soo-soo a couple of times, but after kisses and hugs didn't say anything else and went right to sleep! Yay! Night #2...let's make it through!