Emily & Austin, Aaron's speech therapists, sat us down at the dining room table and told us to get rid of the binkies -- now. We set a date (yesterday) and made a plan....Aaron and I walked around the house and put all of his binkies in a gift bag, and we talked about the "New Baby" who needs his binkies since he's a big boy. No, there isn't a new Levinson on the way - it was all just a 2 year old friendly story. Then we went outside and hung the bag on a tree and we all made a big fuss over telling the binkies goodbye and how much we'll miss them. After an hour my dad took him back outside to discover the special toy the Binkie Fairy left for him when she took his binkies. He was thoroughly unimpressed. He just kept looking around and under his bag for his binkies.
Last night was actually better than I thought it might be. We had about 10 minutes of serious crying and plaintive calls for "Mah binkie!!!" It took about 45 minutes for him to go to sleep and we had one extended waking at night. At naptime today he woke up and couldn't get back to sleep even though he was desperate for more sleep. I'm hoping that by Friday when we leave for New York the binkies will just be a memory.
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What a sweet story. I hope it goes well. Have you tried replacing it with another comfort item?
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