Pacies and Potties

Well, we survived the ever dreaded "taking of the paci". There were a couple of rough days with about an hour of crying at nap time & not wanting to go to bed. But, throughout all the crying she never once asked for her paci - so that was a plus! It just took her a little while to find other ways to "soothe" herself to sleep. We have our bedtime routine of reading a couple of books and then we sing "Rock a bye Baby" and "Lullabye" while rocking in the chair & then she will lay right on down, but now, and I guess to replace the paci so to say, she has to have a pile of stuff in bed with her, about 10 of her books, a baby doll, a stuffed animal, or whatever her eyes spot before climbing into bed. The pediatrician says she beyond being old enough to have things in her bed & not suffocating on them so let her have what ever she needs to soothe herself to sleep. Once she is out I go in & take all the toys out & make sure she's covered up for the night. So far so good.
As for the "potty training" well that just sort of happened on it's own. Since about 20 months she's been asking every so often so sit on the potty & we were thinking yeah, this should potty training a breeze - WRONG! She refuses to wear pull ups, literally will breakdown & cry - so we keep her in diapers & don't force the issue & then one Saturday she just started asking to use the potty. We do it all - the sticker chart, M&M's as a reward (this seemed to be the best motivation), and all is going well. YEAH!!!! She asks to go pee pee in the potty all throughout the day & all the time we are out in public - but still won't let us put pull ups or "big girl undies" on her yet. Guess I just have to be a little more patient there.