That's right. Most of you already know that Daniel has been attached to his binkie from day one. But, now... he has officially been binkie-free since Thursday. He only used the binkie in his bed and in the car, but I thought we would never get that thing away from him. Especially when he started to have a favorite binkie. Sure, it was cute - each night, he would reach into the drawer and pull out his favorite binkie. But, what wasn't so cute was when he would wake up in the middle of the night because he couldn't find it. I've known for a while that he needed to get rid of it, but he's just so stubborn that I was literally terrified of going cold turkey.
But, once again, my children amaze me. He hasn't screamed at all and has done great. We let him throw them away himself so that he would see it for himself and know that they were gone. (I pulled them out of the trash when he wasn't looking in case of emergency!) And since then, he's only asked for it twice and both times we just told them they were all gone and that was the end of it. We did have a close call today when he found my hiding place for the "in case of emergency" binkies. He pulled one of them out and put it straight in his mouth (yes, for all you germ freaks out there, they were cleaned after I pulled them out of the trash can!). I went (ok, ran...) straight over and pulled it out of his mouth. I then grabbed the bunch of binkies and proceeded to sneak upstairs and hide them in Dylan's sock drawer. Again, amazingly, Daniel didn't even cry.
Here's to no more binkies!!!!!! Now, if only I could get him to stop beating up on his older brother. Oh, well - baby steps, right? :)
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Make sure to get a photo of those binkies in the trash during nap time.
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