They're all gone! I promised myself that upon returning from the Boston trip that we would work on getting rid of Amelia's binky. So, on Tuesday, following her last binky-induced nap, Amelia and I went on a pacifier hunt around the house. Every time we found one we put it into a special "binky bag" that Amelia picked out. Once we found all of them, we headed over to Baby Parker's house to give them to him. We've been talking about doing this for well over a month and each time I would go into her room in the morning or after a nap, she would gather all the pacifiers in her crib, hand them to me and say, "baby Parker". 
She was very excited to go to Parker's house and immediately wanted to put the pacifiers directly into his mouth (which I quickly tried to nix). All was good and well until it was time to leave and I made the fatal mistake of saying, "Say good-bye to your binks". She decided at that point that she instead wanted to take them back home with her, saying something like, "no, bink, me, home". Hmmm....that wasn't exactly what I had in mind. Luckily, the crisis was narrowly diverted when I suggested that Amelia leave the binks in Parker's room in a special place. She chose to put them on his chair and we were out of there. All was well when we left and we made a big deal about her being such a big girl. We even called GG in Washington, DC to tell her where we were and what we just did. However, bedtime was pretty rough. She cried for 45 minutes before finally falling asleep. She also awoke at 6 AM sharp, about 2 hours earlier than usual. Naptime on Wednesday was drastically short. On Wednesday afternoon we bought her a new 'big girl' CD player to go in her 'big girl' room and let her pick out a 'big girl' CD to play at bedtime. This, of course, did not seem to make much difference to Amelia and she still cried for about 45 minutes on Wednesday evening.
Thursday went much smoother! She slept until 7:30 AM and took a 3 hour nap. Tonight, after running around for 2 hours straight at our softball game, she went to bed with very little protesting. Although, she did specifically request her bink by name, which was a bit heartbreaking for me (not Jason, though!).
Several people have asked if I have a back-up, emergency pacifier stashed away and I don't. Hopefully that was not an unwise thing to do. I've heard over and over that giving up the pacifier involves 3 rough nights, so hopefully we've made it through the rough patch and it's smooth sailing from here!
2 comments:
Good luck with the naps and nighttime! Stay strong, don't give in! I thought you might need a little encouragement because I know how hard it is to let them cry when you know all they want is something easy like their bink. It will be worth it, though, to not have to worry about always having one with you.
Congratulations on no binky! It sounded pretty rough on both of you. My problem is going to be with Emily's thumb. Can't take that away. Ru roh!
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