Bye, Bye Binky

I never used a pacifier with The Older One.  She's a thumb-sucker.  I was really rather snobby when it came to pacifiers and didn't want my kids using them, no matter how many times I heard "It's easier to get rid of a pacifier than a thumb".  Then The Little One came along.  She had colic.  I had a few life events.  She got a pacifier.  And we were all so happy. 

Like many babies, she came to rely on the "binky" whole-heartily.  She needed it to soothe herself all the time.  When she wanted it, she would tap her lips twice and say "bink-binks".  And I gladly gave it to her. After months and months and months, I knew I'd need to start considering weaning her off it it.  So this past week,bat twenty months of age and much later than I ever thought I would let her keep it, I decided to simply throw all her pacifiers in the trash.  There was no binky-fairy.  There was no binky tree.  There was simply a question "Can I throw your binkies away?" to which an answer was emphatically returned "Noooooooo!".  I threw them away nonetheless while she watched me, she cried a bit, I gave her a sucker, and the rest is {hopefully} history.

I actually pulled the pacifiers out of the garbage and threw them in a cupboard "just in case".  I also didn't want her digging through the garbage looking for them.  She's asked for her "bink-binks" several times over the past four days, but I gently remind her we threw them away and then say "Yay, Little One!  You are such a big girl!"  If someone asks her what happened to her pacifier, she says "Bye, bye."  Then she fakes a cry and says "sucker".  Smart little kid!

Fingers crossed that we've made it through the rough part!  I don't want to go back to the land of bink-binks!

One of her favorite binkies.