This weekend was a big one in the Haug house. After almost three years of having his beloved binkies for nap time and bedtime, Oliver bid farewell to them for good. Our pedi and dentist both said that the absolute cut-off was three, so we have just been letting it slide for awhile now. They both said that we could wait until all of his two-year molars came in (he still only has 3 of the 4, these kids teeth so late!!). I felt really stupid when I dropped him off at his first day of Mom's Day Out on Thursday and gave his teacher his pacifier for nap time. I mean, we are a mere 7 weeks out from his birthday. So Saturday when we were at Costco, we ventured into the toy area, where they had a fabulous assortment of trucks. We told Ollie that he could pick one if he gave his binkies up. He gave that a big fat no at first, but as he and Jon checked all of the trucks out, they found an excavator that plays music, moves, and the digger part goes up and down. He was sold.
As soon as we came home from Costco, we went up to his room to gather up his binkies. He was down to two, so it didn't take long. He put one in his mouth, sucked on it all the way down the stairs, stopped in the dining room and traded for the other one, sucked on it for the walk into the kitchen, and then phew, spit it into the garbage. One more suck on binkie #1, and phew, it got spit into the garbage too. The first nap he asked for it a few times, then Saturday night he only asked for it once. It has not been mentioned since, and wallah, we are 48 hours of being binkie free! If only we had known all it would take was a $16 excavator from Costco, it would have been done long ago! He is getting to be such a big boy! Now if we could only convince him to pee on the potty...
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