At 27 months, Santa took away the beeda (binkie) almost two weeks ago. It was hard the first night but has since been easy. I think it worked out so well because of how much my two year old understands things. For two weeks before Christmas, we talked about how on Christmas Eve, we would leave Santa cookies and our beedas under the tree and he would leave presents in return.
When the time came you were a little upset but she understood what was happening. The following days Madi occasionally asked where her beeda was or said she missed beeda but when we reminded her that Santa came and took them and left presents, you were ok and would move on. She didn't cry for it at night or anything like that. It all worked out for the best and I am so glad that we were able to get rid of it sooner then later. Madison was becoming really attached and I knew it would only get harder.
Hopefully in a couple years we will take the same approach when baby #2 is ready to get rid of binkie.
We have a few more things to accomplish before the arrival of our little sibling.
Potty train
Sleep through the night
More independent play
Organize the shared bedroom
Purchase new clothing, blankets and baby items
Get things out of storage and figure out where we will put it.
Confessions of a first time mom. If pregnancy and children came with an instruction manual these are the things that I wish would be included...
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