We've been talking up the binky fairy for quite some time now. We even ordered a "Binky Fairy" book off of Amazon and have been reading it for the past week or so. My goal was to have the fairy visit by the end of the month, with tomorrow or Thursday being preferrable. However, Kai had some different ideas.
While out in the yard this afternoon playing, Kai turned to me and told me that he was too old to suck on binkys. I was surprised and made sure that I had heard him correctly and he confirmed that I had. So then I asked him if that meant he was going to give them to the binky fairy and again he said yes. So when we returned to the house, I got out a box. I just thought that I'd show him what giving them to the binky fairy really meant and then I figured he would change his mind. He didn't. He ran to his crib and gathered up all of his binkys. (He only had 4, as we have never been big on binkys all of the time. He just uses them at night.) He came back to the living room, put them all in the box, and said "bye bye". Then he told him he was going to write a note to the binky fairy. I got him some blank paper and crayons and he began to scribble, "Dear Binky Fairy". (At least, that's what he says it says. :P) Once he was done, we put the box and the note to the side and continued on our day.
As Reid had Scouts tonight, I was in charge of story time and Kai requested the Binky Fairy book. So we read our book and then a couple others and went about our normal routine. When it came to the time that we normally hand him his binkys he said, "I need binkys". I reminded him that he had sent them to the binky fairy and he said "I say bye bye to turtle." (He had one turtle binky.) When then went to his box, opened it and he said "bye bye" and allowed me to close it back up. From there we normally cuddle for about 5 minutes (with the binkys) and so I gave him his stuffed crocodile instead. He talked to me and the crocodile saying that the crocodile didn't use binkys either. And that was it! He didn't even actually want to sleep with the crocodile. He insisted that crocodile be tucked back into his normal corner and then he laid down on his pillow, I tucked him in and he's now sleeping just as normal. Somebody pinch me!! I thought it'd be so much harder. Granted, we still have to make it all night and I have feeling we'll have at least one break down. I'll have to let you know tomorrow! In the meantime, the fairy needs to run to the store to pick up one last present that we had in mind for our newly declared "binky-free" boy.The box that is outside his door ready for the binky fairy.
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