Say bye-bye

to the binky! YAY!! Over the last couple of weeks we have retired the binky! Daughter's first love was her binky. Once we found the right binky, it never left her. Since Christmas, we have only allowed her to have it if she was sleeping. But a couple of weeks ago we began taking it away during naps and night-night. The first day was really hard...for me. It was naptime, and I was putting it off because I knew it was going to be tough. As soon as I changed her and picked her up to put her in bed, she asked for it. "Mommy, my binky?" I calmly said, "No binky baby. We gave the binkies to another baby who needs them. You're a big girl. You don't need a binky anymore." Then came the waterworks and the wailing. I sat down next to her bed to pat her back and try to calm her down. Then she looks up at me, tears flowing, can't hardly catch her breath and says, "Mommy, please a binky? Mommy, please!!" Ugh, talk about breaking your heart. She cried for about 5 minutes, yelling for her binky and her mommy in between. Then she finally drifted off to sleep. I thought, SUCCESS!! After she got up from her nap, I made a big deal about her sleeping with no binky and how proud I was of her. Well, she's a tricky one, my little girl. Later in the day I went in to straighten up her bed and pick up some toys and when I moved her Holly bear I found it. Yep, a binky. I guess she found one somewhere in her room. Since then, we have removed all binkies and packed them away. Occassionally she will ask for it. She has had a really runny nose since Sunday morning, so she's been asking for it more since she's not feeling her best. But other than that, it hasn't been nearly as bad as I thought it would be.