Boomerang Binky

No way she found the binky. She had stashed it in her shopping cart. She found it and ran to Tyce all excited with it in her hand "Tyce binky!!!". Tyce snatched from her and ran downstairs yelling "Mom Reese found the binky!!" with her close behind in tears. I quickly grabbed it from him and threw it away. I scooped up Reese and cuddled her and told her she was a big girl and she didn't need the binky. She had a minor meltdown for a few minutes until we put on Yo Gabba Gabba and then it was all better. So on we go...BINKY FREE!!!!

Adios Amigo

The amigo is Reese's binky. Yes it is true...I have finally sucked it up and the binky is gone. I am really quite embarrassed that she is 2 and still had a binky. And not just a little bit but pretty much whenever she wanted. She is the baby and I just let her go with it. Jagen - right at 1 it was gone. No kid of mine was gonna wounder around talking with one of those dangling in their mouth. Tyce - 14 months, Asey - 18 months, but Reese takes the cake with 26 months. I am so lame, but last week I had a real eyeopener. One day while we were out (I never let her take it out in public) she was relentless about wanting it. To the point she was in tears and causing trouble so that she could get my attention and then beg for it. It got so bad I had to go home to get it just so I could finish what I was doing. Yes she did wounder around talking with it dangling out of her mouth. For those of you who have gone through similar experiences with binkies or bottles you know you have to gear up for the whole process of removal. Kind of a mental prep for what you are about deal with, but that was it no time for gearing up, I had had it with the binky. This week is fall break for my kids so it is a perfect time to extract the binky. I carefully devised a plan to snip the end and tell her it was broken on Saturday afternoon. Then more on Sunday etc until there was nothing left to suck and it was officially BROKEN and we would throw it away. Well Saturday afternoon before I could do any snipping she lost it. I told her to go put it in her bed so she could go outside with dad, and we haven't seen it since. So we went cold turkey on Saturday. And it has been going pretty well. She didn't even ask for it yesterday. But now she is sick and I feel so bad that she doesn't have it, but she hasn't asked for it so I guess all is well. Now I just hope that if it is still somewhere in this house that I find it and not her. Or it could be a real problem.