Momma recently decided that she was going to greatly restrict Zoe’s use of her pacifier (binky from here forth) since she turned 2 years of age. I thought it was going to be a disaster/nightmare. Go figure. But Momma calmly explained to Zoe that big girls don’t use a binky and that Zoe is a big girl now. Worked like a charm. She seems to have that touch. Reminds me of when she got rid of Zoe’s bottle. Just had Zoe help her throw them all out one day and that was that. Amazing.

The restriction is to bed time only.  That means she can have it during her naps and ant night, when in bed, for now. Kris will decide when to pull them all together.

Zoe fussed about it for a few days and then that was that. The really funny thing is when she asks for them and how. She knows that she can’t have the binky until its night-night time and she knows that when she asks for the binkys directly, the answer is always no. But she still craves it for pacification.  Now she’ll ask for night-night,  when she craves the binky, even if its at 10 in the morning or 6 at night.

The funniest thing that happened so far happened last night at about 5 PM.  She was playing around in the family room and fell over and hit her head. She stood up, turned around, looked at me with teary eyes, and in a slightly whiny voice asked “night night?”

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