No More Binki

Paiglee is finally off the binky, it is great. I really couldn't be happier with the results of taking it away. I decided just to do it, because there seems to always be some reason I won't cause we have this coming and I know she will need it or whatever excuse I come up with not to do it. So Last Friday I told Daryl this is the Weekend I am taking it away. Daryl didn't think it would happen I am sure because I have been saying that for some time now and haven’t been following through, I am a chicken when it comes to dealing with her tantrums, if I don't have to I don't want to deal with them, so I am not going to make them for myself. But I woke up on Saturday found all her binky’s put them in an envelope told her to say "goodbye binky’s" which was followed by screaming and crying, then I hid the envelop until we left the house. I told her we were sending them away that she was a big girl now and we gave her a piece of candy and that was it. Then I even took her to send them in the mail to my mom. She asked for her binky and she wanted her binky a few times Saturday when I first took it, but all we said was binky bye, bye, or no binky. She did try to look for one that I might have missed, but no such luck. I kept her busy that whole day so that she wouldn’t want her binky. It worked, she didn't take a nap that day but to be honest with no binky, no nap she was an angel considering the fact. Sunday she was fine she was told to whisper more than usual and Beth could hear her from the other side of the chapel but really I couldn't complain, she even didn't melt down after church for it she took her nap and it was great. Saturday and Sunday night she went right to bed no asking for binky or anything. And she might have asked once everyday thus far for her binky but once we say no binky she drops it. Also she is talking a ton more we even noticed it more the first day. She used a ton of new words we hadn't heard her use before that Saturday, she sings a ton in the car now. She is talking a ton and I like it right now, I like to hear her little voice. I feel she is acting more of her age and working through her shyness and any uncomfortable situation without using her binky as her clutch or comfort. She still gets her blanket so she has that but she gives that up more to adventure out and play when normally she would sit back and observe. So it has been a great experience getting rid of her binky, which I am so thankful for, because I seriously was geared up to be the wicked witch of the West with her.
I think taking her binky away was harder for me than her to be honest, I still find myself asking to myself "do I have the binky" "where is the binky" I have to say "oh yeah it is gone". But I am glad it is gone, I miss it because she is my baby, and it is hard to view her as growing up, to think she will be leaving me in the fall for pre-school. But this big change of no more binky is the best, she was really being held back by it, and her speech was being hindered by it. She asks all the time now what is that? what is that? As annoying as it can get I entertain her with it because I like to know she is curious. She also is repeating what I say more and trying new words, not that she didn't before but it is a whole new level she is at now. I am just glad that this was as easy as it was, because with her things can be very difficult. So Hooray for no more binky!!!

Here's to her binky....

In memory of the binky