friday night, corey and i decided it was time to adios the binky for real! i had planned on saying goodbye to binkies and bottles at 1...and no later. well the bottle went away but i didn't think charly was ready to give up her bink, or was it me who wasn't ready? it was me, because she did have a time when she didn't seem all that interested. soon after the non-interest turned into serious addiction. oh great! i was sure she'd be a five year old binky sucker...yuck that could not happen!
our plan: cut the binky tip off so that it lost its magic. and we'd do this saturday morning so she would have all day to adjust to no binky before bedtime.
day 1: corey snipped off the end, oh wait practically the whole bulb so that she really couldn't put it in her mouth anymore. she took a look at it and stared, tried to put it in her mouth, then stared some more. corey said, "it's broken, binky's broke". all day she would look at it and repeat, "broke, broke, broke". sometimes not even caring, other times completely sad. but at least she understood what had happened. that was the good part. nap #1 without binky was a complete failure. she didn't nap. she sat in her crib and bawled. later she fell asleep in the car and i'm counting that as a nap. night #1 she wouldn't go to sleep unless i was laying right beside her. awesome, now she has to go to sleep in my bed....wait she sleeps in my bed a lot in the morning after corey leaves for work! that night was rough, she woke up numerous times and wouldn't go back to sleep without me.
day 2: it was sunday and since she woke up early i thought we'd be able to squeeze in a nap before church so she could actually go! well, that also didn't happen! no nap, so we headed of to church. after sitting through sacrament i knew she wouldn't make it the whole block. so we brought her home to see if she'd take a nap. she fell asleep in the car on the way home....we live 1 minute away from the church. she was tired! her nap was short. darn that binky i thought! desperately wanting to give in and just give her a binky. too bad we didn't have a back up binky, actually not too bad, i couldn't give in! she seemed to handle the day well. only asking for her bink once. then she saw it and remembered it was broken. that night we got home late. she didn't fall asleep in the car and i thought for sure it would be another rough night. surprise, she went right to bed, didn't make a sound, dozed right off, slept until 10:00 am the next morning without waking once! what? after one night and she was cured? i could not believe it! this was easier than i thought! and now today (day four) it's like the binky never ever existed! how does this work? all i know is that for the next kid, we will not be so chicken about taking that binky away!
