Monday, April 21, 2008

The End of an Era

Yesterday, we told AJ that since he was 4 years old, he was a big boy now, and had to throw his binkies in the garbage. We rounded up all 3 of his remaining binkies and he said, "OooKAAAYyy" and walked over to the garbage and dropped them in.
And he hasn't cried or whined or asked for them since.
*Knock on wood*


8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good Job AJ!

Anonymous said...

evil!!!

Anonymous said...

I then secretly scooped the binkies out of the trash and saved them in my china cupboard....i missed them so......

Anonymous said...

Funny, I saw one of those big, sour, candy binks yesterday at the store and I was drawn to it.

I sucked my thumb until I was ten years old. What was my Mom gonna do - cut off my thumb?

None of my kids sucked their thumbs, then Zac came along. He sucks his still but only when he sleeps, is worried or anxious. I loved that he did because he always calmed himself down and we were never in danger of losing it.

Ah, four...who decided that was "big boy age" anyway?

Anonymous said...

Hooray!!!

Anonymous said...

dan - evil us, for letting him have a binky for so long? evil plastics company for putting BPA in binkies? Evil us for making him throw it away? Clarification is needed.

ness - china cabinet? who has one of those? wait, I do....but it's a plastic tub in the attic.

amy - shout out to a fellow thumb sucker. I sucked mine till i was seven.
who decided four was "big boy"? The dentist. No more bink.

:)

Anonymous said...

I am comforted to hear about you thumb-suckers. Charleigh has a callous on hers from being constantly "plugged in."

Anonymous said...

The callouses! Zac gets them often and is tortured between sucking his calloused thumb and making it burn more or...you know...quitting.