No more blankie? no more pacie? we'll see!

I didn't mean for this post to be so long...
For those who know Kaitlyn, she LOVES her blankie. When we brought her home from the hospital we dressed her up in a outfit, which matched her blankie. But, after we brought her home we never used the blanket... until one random night when Kaitlyn was a few months old she was sleeping and I went in her room to check on her. I wanted to put a blanket on her so I went to where her blankets were and grabbed whatever one was on top and it happened to be the one we brought her home in. Well....since that night (2 1/2 plus years) Kaitlyn has loved that blankie so much, she has taken it everywhere with her. It was basically her comfort blankie. But, the blanket was so well loved that I got em brassed taking it places.. no matter how many times I washed it, it didn't look any better. I think washing it actually made the blanket look worse. Anyway, for the past year we have been trying to get Kaitlyn to like another new soft, silky blanket but she wasn't having it. She would just throw it on the the ground... until this week! Kaitlyns blankie got so bad that I just had to hide it from her (along with most of her pacifiers.. that's another story) and for the past 3 nights she hasn't even asked for it!! She has been sleeping with her new soft, silky blanket that we have been trying to get her to love. yay! I took pictures of her well loved blankie and let me tell you - these pictures DO NOT do the justice! The silk part on the back of the blanket isn't even silky anymore. it is shredded and totally not connected to the blanket.... The pacifier story - Yesterday when K woke up in the morning I told her that today was the day we weren't going to have anymore pacifiers. She goes to primary now at church so we have been telling her that she is a "big" girl now and that big girls don't need pacies. Well, I told her if she gave them to me we would go to the toy store and she could pick out whatever toy she wanted. She told me she wanted a YO-YO. Awesome- not to hard to get and not expensive. Then, she said, "ride in car at store." it took me a minute to figure out what she was talking about, but then I got it. She likes the little kid cars at the grocery store and I never let her ride in it because its huge and I can't push it - i'm just weak. Anyway, surprisingly she gave me her pacie and told me to keep it safe. All day she went with out it, until bed time.. so the deal is she only gets her pacie when she goes to sleep. So the past 2 nights it has work. Hopefully, this is how its going to be for now on.

also, Kaitlyn has the hardest time going to bed. Maybe because daddy gets home around bed time and she wants to play?! I don't know.. But, the past 3 days she hasn't had a nap and she has been going to bed 7:30/8:00.. now to me that sounds like a normal child. no more 10:30 bed business.

Now.. time for potty training! ah! any advice?