It has happened. We have been talking to Colin about how binkies are for babies and that some day very soon, before he turned 3, we would collect all of his binkies and send them to the binky tree in Copenhagen. Yesterday Colin decided was the day. Despite several warnings that it would mean no more binkies he was quite adamant that we send them off to the binky tree “today”. Today being yesterday, he just has a very cute way of saying today.
We collected all of the binkies we could find into a box, wrapped it, colored it, put “stamps” on it and then left it out for daddy to mail.
We have gone to sleep 3 times since the binkies were gone and only a casual mention has been made by Colin. He did get up this am at like 5:30 and his afternoon nap was only 1.5 hours, as opposed to 2-3 hours, which I think may be a side effect to the loss of the binky.
Hopefully we won’t hear mention of them again, although I have read that cold turkey like this works for a few days and then the child starts to miss them again, so we could be in for a rough weekend.
But the binkies are actually at Matt’s office, so there is no turning back! Hooray for growing up!
The binky tree!!!!!
Those rites of passage are bittersweet, aren’t they?
How fun! Too bad we’re not in Copenhagen anymore to tie them onto the tree for you. Actually we move from Berkeley to Davis tomorrow – we will especially miss our current place.