Fun with beverages

As if dealing with a 3 year old isn't challenging enough, I have a 3 year old prankster. For the past week or so, this (pictured) is what Parker does whenever she gets a drink, especially in the car. She pretends to drink, filling her cheeks with air, and then urgently
says "Mmmmm! Mmmmm! " to get my attention. I respond with alarm, thinking she's overfilled her mouth and she's about to make a mess. Then she blows out the air "pppffffftttt" to show me that she was faking. I fell for it the first 600 times, but I'm starting to catch on. This isn't a great picture, but it's the best I could do with a line of cars behind me waiting to turn left.

Blankie success

One step forward.......
We had some success this week with Blankie Detox. Bob told Parker if she left Blankie upstairs all day, and she had no potty accidents, and she was sweet and nice in the car (all on her chart this week), that he'd take her for ice cream. On Wednesday, she managed to have a great day with no Blankie, so we met Bob out for mexican food, and then got ice cream afterward. Parker had vanilla with sprinkles. She was sooooo excited and so proud of herself.




Two steps back.....
Some of her hard work was undone on Friday when I kept her home from school because of fever and cough....so she spent most of the day on the couch with Blankie and TV. She's feeling better for the most part, but the cough remains. She made it until naptime with Blankie upstairs today, and then she crashed on the couch while Bob watched the Longhorn game

Blankie Detox

For 2 weeks now, we have been in deep Blankie Detox. When she has Blankie, she sucks her fingers, and the finger sucking is making her teeth crooked, so the goal is to only have Blankie for sleep. Over the summer, the Blankie habit has gotten very bad, and we are having to work very hard to undo it. Parker isn't a 'cold turkey' kind of kid (we tried, repeatedly), so we're doing a chart. The categories are, No blankie with TV, no blankie in the car, and leave blankie upstairs. We have succeeded with not having blankie with TV, but the rest aren't going so well. Blankie in the car isn't an option any longer, and she isn't coping with it well. Car trips longer than 10 minutes begin with complaints and requests, and end with hysterical screaming and crying. By the end of all this, Parker will be detoxed from Blankie, but mommy will be in Betty Ford.