Journey to binky free for Lexi

So, we weaned off Lexi from her binky months ago, except for sleeping. Then a few weeks after that she stopped using binky at school during naps, but she just couldn't go to sleep without binky at home. So Sunday Dec 28th was the day that i just decided that she shall no longer use the binky.  It was hard, she cried for about 2 hours, on and off, mostly whining and then finally fell asleep around 11:30 pm. Then she woke up again at 12 asking for her binky. And after a brief time out she asked to be put back to her crib and slept until the next morning. But the poor thing came to our bed and asked for the binky from Tony right away. Not getting her way, she cried again, but we were able to distract her with breakfast.  The entire time she cried on Sunday night, brandan didn't go to sleep either. For a moment he was so mad at the whole thing. He asked me to "just give her the binky, she is still a small baby, she needs it". I had to apologize to him and explain that she is now 2 years old and receives gifts from Santa like all the other big kids, so she can't use her binky anymore.  He was very understanding, but then he went to my room to sleep, but when i went back to the room to check on him, he was sitting next to the bathtub and playing with his toy transformer.  

Monday nap time, she asked for binky again, and i wasn't going to give in so i told her that binky's gone bye-bye. She cried for about 5 minutes, then asked for milk and being picked up. That didn't last long, so i gave her a bell that was a part of the Santa Ornament. She held on to that and fell asleep. Night time, after a bath and a long story time, i put her down. At first she asked for milk, i gave to her, she asked to be picked up again, and i let her have her way. But when she just wouldn't lay down, i had to give her a 1 minute time out. After the time out, she went straight to her crib and didn't cry another sound.  But i sat in the room until both of them fell asleep. The entire time, she didn't ask for binky, my mom was amazed, she thought it was going to take a whole week of crying for her to get used to it.

Tuesday morning, she woke up and didn't say anything, but then we praised her for being a big girl who didn't use binky.  She really liked that, and she said "lexi good girl, no binky".  Nap time came, and i told her beforehand to remember that she was a good girl, and a big girl, and there would be no binky. Surprisingly she took it to heart and didn't even ask for it, after a bit of milk, she just went to sleep. No crying or fuss at all.

Tuesday night, it was even more smooth, she did ask for binky, but right after she asked for it she said "lexi big girl, go sleep no binky" i was so happy that she said that. I put her under the cover, kiss-good-nighted to both of them and walked out of the room. They were talking for a few minutes and required for me to stand outside the room to make sure they weren't up playing. But that was like the regular routine on some nights but no binky.  

If tomorrow is still smooth like today, then i think we have succeeded in it. I hope that is it for the binky.  Proud of the little girl for that.