Bye-bye binky!

Just thought I should announce that today we officially ended Josh's love affair with his binky.  He's always been a binky boy, and it's actually been really nice for Ryan and me because it's always seemed to calm him down.  When he was around a year, though, old we decided it was time to drop the binky but didn't really do much to make that happen.  We did get to where he would only use it for nap time and bedtime, but being the loving mother I am, there were times I would give it to him when he asked for it during the non-nap/bedtimes....:) Anyway, we wanted to drop it when he entered nursery (at church), but that was around the time we took a loooong road trip to Virginia, and I wasn't about to go on a car trip with out his binky.  Then right after that, Josh got sick, and I don't know about any other parents out there, but that's about the last situation where I would want to take away a comfort item.  Then we went out to Utah for the holidays, and once again we didn't want to be without the binky. 

Now that we're home and adjusted back to New York time, we figured now would be a good time to take care of business.  Today we, or rather I, cut the end of the binky off, like so many wise parents suggested, and when Josh asked for it, we told him it was broken and showed it to him.  I was surprised how hard it was for me to cut it.  Haha, I felt like such a mean parent, like I was cutting up his favorite teddy bear or something.  When he saw it, he was pretty distraught, and kept saying "broken.....fix it", and then looking to me and saying, "help"!  He was basically pleading with us to save his binky, but we sadly had to tell him there was no going back, the binky was gone.  He was sad for a little while, but later had fun playing around with the maimed binky.  At bedtime he asked for it about 72 times, according to Ryan, but once Ryan stopped replying to Josh's pleas and was simply quiet, Josh came to terms and fell asleep, all in about 5 to 10 mins.

I know this is a lengthy post for such an odd topic, but the parents out there who have binky babies will understand how exciting and scary this event truly is.  I know I shouldn't be celebrating yet, since Josh went down only 1.5 hours ago and this is the first night of his separation, but I'll take any small victory we can get.  I'll keep all you eager readers posted on how Josh does through the long haul.  I'm hoping for an easy read...I guess only time will tell.