So I have been working on two upcoming blogs that I promised Les I’d have up yesterday…it didn’t happen and it’s not happening today either! Something to look forward to right? I’ll give you the teaser that they involve prom dresses, intertubes, girls just wanting to have fun and monsters in the closet…admit it you’re intrigued?
Now that I have you attention, tonight’s blog is an update on the great binkie extrication of ’13. We decided from the beginning that cold turkey wasn’t the way to go. We made the commitment, that when he woke up in the morning, we would take it and set it on his dresser until bed time. Weekends, we’d allow it at nap time. The first two days were rough. It was a half hour of pitiful whimpering saying “dinkie”, and then he cried all the way to daycare, until feeding some hermit crabs (class pet) distracted him from his dark binkie loss. Once we got through those first two days he didn’t ask for it much. When night time came though and we pulled it out, it was like a scene from the movies, a look of pure elation, a slow motion run (if binkies could run), a touch embrace and an unspoken commitment of a forever kind of love…we’ll call it a Binkie to Remember or maybe My Fair Binkie? Binkie and the Beast?
He has settled well into this routine and even goes down for a nap at daycare with out it! We tried no binkie at nap time at home, but after 45 minutes of crocodile tears and toddler sobs that made me certain I was the worst mother EVER…he got the binkie and peacefully napped.
Perhaps the best part about this challenging time in our house, is that Gavin has become a pleasant little chatter box. For months I have been worried that he doesn’t say many words, he babbles and we’ve got the mommy, daddy, no, cow, juice, car and choo-choo bases covered, but he wasn’t going much further than that. As every normal mom does, I’d compare him to every other toddler that was further in the speaking department than him and freak out. I’ve gone as far as wondering if he’s tongue tied and I’ve interrogated the pediatrician and ladies at daycare until I’m blue in the face and they run the other way when they see me coming! I am sure I will one day soon miss the silence of my binkie baby, I am loving the sweet words coming out of his mouth! Today he saw the moon in the sky as we were walking into daycare and said “moon”. When a cloud moved in to block it, he said “Where go?”…he’s never put two words together…I beamed brighter than that moon!
So the two week binkie update is this, we’re getting there….slowly but surely! Someday we’ll proudly proclaim “Binkie Free since ‘13”! Who wants a T-shirt?
*UPDATE- As I was editing this to post, I casually asked my husband if he had any trouble finding the bink (I stash it under things on his dresser, out of sight out of mind). He said he didn’t find it, went to bed without it….casually, just like that! HELLO calm man who just put our binkie addicted kid to bed WITHOUT ONE... think you’d inform his mother about this groundbreaking information??? Either way folks, this is HUGE and could be it. If you need me I’ll be around my house teetering between moments of a binkie conquest celebration dance (think running man meets Macarana, while having a seizure) and crying my eyes out….watching babies grow sure is bitter sweet!
-Meg
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