Binki Fairy

The Binki Fairy came to visit, last week. 

I posted about the whole binki thing, a few months ago. Buzz had taken them back to his house.   And she was still allowed to have it at naps and bedtime. She did really well for about a week or so, and then she got really sick, and that is all she wanted. So how could I be a mean mom, and not let her have her comfort when she was feeling sick? Well, long story short, time flew by, and she became Really Attached to it again! I was so sick of it. But I was Dreading, taking it away. She cried for it, whenever she was sad, or tired. It was her only comfort. So the other day we took her in for her first Real visit, to the dentist. Which just so happens, to be my cousin. Anyway, he checked out her teeth, and then he turned to me and said that her bite was did not meet together because of the binki. CRAP! I knew it could affect her teeth, but I hadn't realized that it had already started to do the damage. So.. I came home and told Jayson the news. And we decided we had to get the binki away once and for all. I knew it was going to involve a lot of screaming and no sleep! 

On Tuesday morning, she woke up happy, and I decided to give it a try. I asked her if she wanted to give her binkis to the binki fairy to take to all the fairy babies.  She said "uh huh" so we went in her room and found this purse to put them in. She was all happy and excited about it. She did sneak a few sucks on the binki while we were getting dressed and ready to go outside. So we went out to the porch and she decided that she didn't want to leave the purse. We were on our way to go on a walk with my neighbor friends. She took the purse and put it in the stroller. I snuck it and put it on the porch. The whole time we were on our walk, she kept asking for them. I would tell her that the fairy had them. She would whine and say "no." When we got back from our walk, I was nervous to see what she would do when she saw they were really gone. She ran up the porch to her purse, and sure enough, when she looked inside and saw they were gone. She fell on her tummy and started crying. She got over it pretty quick, and started playing outside. The rest of the day went pretty good. She didn't have a nap though. And by 9:00 that night, she was exhausted and really wanted that binki. So as I expected, she Screamed! And she threw things, and she Screamed some more. She even knocked over my long mirror I had in my room, and broke it. OOPS!  By this point, I was starting to loose my patience. It was so hard to just let her scream, and know that she had to just get tired. About an hour and a half later, she fell alseep in my arms crying herself to sleep. She slept the whole rest of the night! The next couple of days went pretty good. Not much mention of her binki. Unless she was tired. So we are now on day 7. She is doing pretty good, she still cries when she is tired, she doesn't ask for it, she just cries.

I took her to the store a few days before the fairy came, and let her pick out some fabric to make her a blanket. She chose a purple princess one. She was way excited, when she got it. The day I was trying to tie it, she kept stealing it from me, so I couldn't finish it. Now that her binki is gone though, she does Not Want that blankie! Little Stinker!



Big girl, with No More Binki!

She just holds her blankie when she is Not tired. I have tried a few different things with her, trying to replace her binki.   Hoping she will cling to something else, to help her calm down. But so far, she does not want anything.  Hopefully, in the next few days, she will start to like her blankie more.
I am just happy that I can see her cute little mouth, all the time now. And, just as I thought, she has started talking like crazy! She talked before, but now she just jabbers to me, all day long.



This is the last picture I took of her with her binki. ( naked and sitting in her dolly stroller)  She is on her way to being such a big girl. Now it is back to potty training. Wish us luck!