No More Binki!!

Jake was a binki baby. He took the binki ALL the time. I thought he would be just like Brianna, not wanting to give it up, she had hers till she was 5! I know, horrible, we ended up telling her she could not go to school if she still had a binki. She didn't have it all the time at that age, just when she went to bed! Then years later she told us she had one hidden behind her bed that we didn't know about! I thought that Jake would be the same way! But I was all wrong! About when he was 18 months he would wake up from his nap and give me his binki. He knew somehow it was only for sleeping. I don't know how he knew that because I never enforced that on him. I was glad he took care of it himself! Then about the same time he lost his blankie he was throwing out his binki when I gave it to him to go to sleep. It was almost as if he was too mad that he didn't have his blankie he wouldn't take his binki! I would put it in his crib after he was asleep in case he woke up and wanted it. Still he wouldn't take it. So it has now been a few weeks and he still hasn't had it. I found two behind his crib, but he isn't hiding them, he is throwing them out! I think he is done with them! I really can't believe he has done this all on his own. I definitely thought it would be a struggle. Recently I was reading that you should take it way before they are two, otherwise the longer you go over two the harder it gets. So I thought I would start to wean him at two, well no worries now I don't have to!

This is what we have left of our collection of binkis. I think I am just going to keep one, just in case!

So proud of you Jake! Kicking your habit all by yourself!!