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Another MILESTONE!
Yes, 2 milestones in one month. What is this new milestone for our family? Max finally gave up his binky. Well.... Chris and I have just been so sick of it and Max cries for it at night and at nap time... so, yesterday, after he got up in the morning, I said,"Go put your binky in the drawer." This is normal protocol for us. The problem is that Max knows where it is so he gets it out periodically throughout the day and then I have to tell him to put it back. Anyway, yesterday after he put it away, I moved it to the top of the fridge. When it was nap time, he went to the drawer and started freaking out saying,"Where's mah binky??!!!" I told him, with a straight face,"Oh, the binky elf took it. He said to tell you hello." Max just looked at me puzzled and said,"Ok." So, he took anap without the bink... I had to fill Chris in on this so that he didn't wreck anything. So, when it was night time, Max again went to the drawer and said,"Where's mah binky?" Then he answered his on question and said,"Oh yeah, the elf took it." YESSSSsssss! There were no more tears and everything was hunky doory! Chris was sure Max would wake up in the night crying for it because that happened some times when he'd lose his binky during his deep sleeps... But nope. When he got up this morning, he came into my room and said,"Mom, the elf took my binky." I said,"Yep." And he just shook his head as if to agree with me and that was that. NO MORE BINKY! Everyone should go out to dinner to celebrate!
Yes, 2 milestones in one month. What is this new milestone for our family? Max finally gave up his binky. Well.... Chris and I have just been so sick of it and Max cries for it at night and at nap time... so, yesterday, after he got up in the morning, I said,"Go put your binky in the drawer." This is normal protocol for us. The problem is that Max knows where it is so he gets it out periodically throughout the day and then I have to tell him to put it back. Anyway, yesterday after he put it away, I moved it to the top of the fridge. When it was nap time, he went to the drawer and started freaking out saying,"Where's mah binky??!!!" I told him, with a straight face,"Oh, the binky elf took it. He said to tell you hello." Max just looked at me puzzled and said,"Ok." So, he took anap without the bink... I had to fill Chris in on this so that he didn't wreck anything. So, when it was night time, Max again went to the drawer and said,"Where's mah binky?" Then he answered his on question and said,"Oh yeah, the elf took it." YESSSSsssss! There were no more tears and everything was hunky doory! Chris was sure Max would wake up in the night crying for it because that happened some times when he'd lose his binky during his deep sleeps... But nope. When he got up this morning, he came into my room and said,"Mom, the elf took my binky." I said,"Yep." And he just shook his head as if to agree with me and that was that. NO MORE BINKY! Everyone should go out to dinner to celebrate!
5 comments:
Sweet I'll have to keep in mind when that time comes around.. Right now I need to move from bottles to Sippy cups.. I'm trying to figure that one out..
Jen
The wonderful ways we can get kids to believe things. That was a good one. And yet so simple.
That is awesome! Jenica was an addict until 2 1/2. I went to costco and bought her a sweet new toy (little doll and shopping cart) and she had to throw her binky in the big garbage outside to get it. She did it and knew it was gone...we didn't have any problems after that! Fortunately Kaitlyn was never big into them...
You are brilliant. I want mah binky! I love it!
The binky elf! You are a genius. We do have to get creative, don't we? It is so funny, the things they don't even question. He has total faith in you. You go!
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