Banishing the Binky

Cooper was a binky addict. Around 7-8 months of age, I realized that it was a bigger problem than we thought. It was then that I ruled the binky a sleepy time item only. It was also then that I told myself that the binky would be gone before Cooper's 1st birthday. Well, I obviously need to stop making rotten promises to myself. Cooper is 20 months old and we've just banished the binky. Its been a hard go and he is toughing it out.

Last Monday, I decided that I didn't want to bring any binkies for him on our next weekend getaway to the cottage. I don't want my two year old walking around with a binky. There was no particular event that led to Tuesday being 'the day'. It was a thought I had on Monday and I figured if I didn't do it just then, I probalby wouldn't do it for a while.

Tuesday was horrible. Although, he did nap for me. It was Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday... Oh yes... Friday... where we had the problems. I'd love to put Friday in my book of days I'd LOVE to forget for the rest of my life. It was one of those days where you actually think about serving yourself a shot of whiskey or drinking an entire bottle of wine. I did neither just for the pure fact that I didn't want to have to explain my sloppiness to my hubby when he came home from work. Crawling in a hole would have been a good option too... it was just too hot to do all that digging. The actual events of Friday weren't all too different from our normal day, except the difficult patches were 10 times harder and seemed to never end. Cooper decided that since I wasn't giving in and giving him a binky, he was going to rebel and get into every single thing that he could. Not a good day for mom. Poking Belle in the eyes was his new hobby just because he knew he shouldn't be doing it. Too bad he's learned to scale the sides of the pack n' play and escape... otherwise that would have been a good tool.

Tomorrow will be a week without the binky. Cold turkey. I see an end in sight although he is not going gently.

I promise... Belle will be done with the binky by her first birthday so I do not have to go through this again. (Don't quote me on that though, k?)