Binky Free!

Last weekend, I thought I would start getting Audrey ready to give up her binkys - my goal was to have her done with binkys by four.  Saturday morning, I pulled her on my lap and we looked on the computer at a big girl "princess" bed and a big girl fancy bed set.  I told her that whenever she was ready, she could throw her binkys into the trash can and mama would get her a fancy big girl bed.  I emphasized the fact, that I wasn't going to make her throw them away, she got to do it whenever she was ready.  And as a reward for becoming a big girl, she would get to sleep in a new fancy big girl bed.  

Immediately, she wanted the binkys, and ran upstairs to "take a nap".  So I was pretty sure, we were going to be talking about this for a good long while.  

About 20 minutes later she came downstairs with her binkys and was telling me about them and how she liked them, etc.  About 5 minutes after that, I asked here where the binkys were and she said, they were in the garbage can.  I ran over to take a look and sure enough, there the three binkys were (one sucking-on binky, and two flipping-nose binkies) in the garbage can.  Audrey just beamed up at me, I am ready for a big girl bed Mama.

So the rest of my day was spent purchasing a bed frame, bed and setting the whole thing up.  That night she of course, talked about how she wanted to have her binkies back, but we reminded her that she threw them away.  She has asked for them a couple of times since, but that is it.  We are binky free!!