At the very beginning of February we told Oliver that the binkie fairy was on her way to collect all his binkies because he was such a big boy now. We had talked about it for weeks, we would sing (hearing him sing it was just about the cutest thing ever).
"Bye bye binkie, binkie bye bye. Ollie won't even cry. He doesn't need you, cause he's a big boy so bye bye binkie...binkie bye bye"
Saturday night we collected all the binkies we could find and put them on the kitchen table for the binkie fairy to take away.
He was even giving them kisses goodbye. Breaking my heart! Ollie's binkie was his only comfort item, it wasn't as hard to take Elle's pacifiers away because she still had (and still has) her lovey. But these binkies meant the world to my Ollie.
He was really excited to see the big boy toy the binkie fairy brought him the next morning and loved playing with his new Buzz Lightyear but honestly he was asking for his binkies back pretty quickly.
He had a really hard time those first few days. Actually day time wasn't that bad and he would even fall asleep fine without it but he would wake up in the middle of the night crying for a binkie. His second night without one I was up holding him for HOURS in the living room in the middle of the night while he cried. And as hard as that was it wasn't even a week before he was sleeping normally again.
I definitely don't miss turning the house upside down to find a binkie for him but I do miss this sweet little binkie smile. :)
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