superboy!

If Timmy could read, and saw the title, he would say "don’t call me like that. i not superboy. I am SOOP-erman!!" His favorite song right now is I am Superman from REM- I put it on my ipod for him and whenever I play it, he gets that Timmy "hehehe" laugh. Even after the 5th time in a row.

Big news…we took away the papis (that would be pacifiers). Well, we didn’t…the papi fairy came and took them to the little babies who didn’t have papis. And she left him $10 so he could go shopping for a new toy. I wasn’t planning on having the papi fairy show up right now, but after the Mets game on Saturday, Timmy fell asleep in the car (at 5pm!) on the way home and I couldn’t wake him up for 2 hrs! He didn’t have the papi for that long nap (he only has it in his bed for naps and bedtime) so we talked about it. We discussed how he obviously didn’t need it to sleep, and that he’s not a baby anymore (waaaaaa! says mommy) since he sleeps in a big boy bed, wears big boy underwear, goes to big boy school, etc so he probably shouldn’t have a papi anymore since he’s not a baby. Plus the fact that he makes it a point to tell everyone "i not a baby! i’m a big boy!". I asked him if he thought he was ready for the papi fairy to come and take the papis and he said yes. Could it really, really be this easy? I wasn’t hopeful.

The reason I wasn’t hopeful… two words. Jack & Patrick. When it was their turn for the papi fairy to pay a visit after much discussion about the whole deal (no more papis, papis for the babies, a new toy)… the first night they were going to bed everything seemed fine, UNTIL… they got into bed, broke out into simultaneous crying fits, and screaming "I can’t brEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEathe without it!!!" They were so addicted and were going thru withdrawl. Like crackheads. It was like this for about 3 days. Not so much.

So, things seem to be going pretty well with Timmy (I’m afraid to post it cause I don’t want to jinx it). Went to bed no problem the first night (Saturday) and slept thru til 8am. No nap on Sunday though, but he did play in his bed for an hour. Sunday he had 3 (yes 3!) accidents. I think he was so tired without the nap he just couldn’t get it together. Last night was okay. He went to bed early since he was such a total wreck (he really needed that nap!) slept til 4am and was up for half an hour looking for the damn papi. He did go back to sleep til around 7:15am. Not bad. And today, he was nowhere near napping when I put him down but he was so tired. So I told him I was going to rock him, and he fell right asleep and napped for 2hrs. With no papi. Woohoo!