Binky Free: Night One

Bye Bye binky, hello Blabla doll!!! Thats's the motto in our house this weekend.  When Mia came home from the hospital we literally had no binky's. Fast forward to her one week check & her pediatrician took one look at us & said yo need to pacify that baby. I distinctly remeber leaving her w Damon & racing off to Target for as many MAMs as I could find!!! She still didnt stop screaming for about ....ohhhh 4 MONTHS!!!!! Finally at 10 months she started sleeping like a champion.  She only had her binky during car rides, naptime & bedtime. A few months ago we took it away during car rides. It was rough. She's never liked riding in the car to begin with. There was a serious week of screaming & whining every trip!!

All this week we've been preparing her for no more binky. She LOVES looking at the moon & stars, so we've been telling her binky is going to the moon. Random, I know. Today Gma Tachee & I took her on a special mission to Sprout Soup. I got her out of the car and standing on the side walk knelt down on her level, grabbed her hands & said "Mimi, tonite binky is going to live at the moon, but you can pick out a special toy to sleep with in your crib." She said, "Look mama, a bird." lol I don't think she got it!!!!  So Hercule the Elephant came to live with us!!! I tried really hard to get her to choose Prudence the Owl but she was smitten with Hercule:) Gma Tachee splurged & we got Bamboo the Bear for brother, too!!!  I hate to jinx us but after one minute of emphatically repeating "I WANT ONE BINKY," she went to sleep without a hitch. We shall see how long that lasts!!!