I'm a little late in posting this story..but hey a little late than never. SO these binkies shown would be Naelani's choice of binks! Let me back up a second...Talan and Naelani are 14 months apart. They both sleep in the same room. They both LOVE their binkies but each take a different brand, so to speak. Talan is about 2 1/2 now and is a big boy. In December we decided that we were going to attempt to potty train him because Justin was going to be home for the Holidays. It was either then or the Summer time and I couldn't wait that long. I was done with buying 2 sets of diapers! So we did it and he did very well. Talan is also a binky boy, his nickname has been "brother bear" because the kid goes into hibernation when he sleeps. He takes super long naps during the day, sleeps well at night etc. That is as long as he has his binky. SO..we decided this last month that he was doing awesome with potty training and he was a big boy so we needed to get rid of his binky. The only time he was allowed to have it was when he was sleeping anyways. Well that did NOT go over too well, the kid regressed majorly. Potty training went out the window. He was having accidents left and right etc. Well after about a week of that he was finally getting over this bad habit. In the meantime Talan kept waking up really early between 5-5:30ish every morning and would wake up Naelani.
Well one morning in the monitor I heard Talan get out of bed...I jumped out of bed so fast to avoid him from waking up Naelani. To my surprise I found him trying his hardest to be so quiet putting his arms through Naelani's crib and trying to take her binky out of his mouth! Yes, he was waking up earlybird to steal his sisters binkies right out of her mouth. Binkies that he doesn't even care to suck on, that is until his were taken away! When I walked in the room he chucked the binky across the room as if I didn't see it already in his hand. So the next week or so we would have to put Naelani to bed after he was asleep otherwise he would steal her binky from her! There were a couple times that we found him in the morning with a binky in his mouth cuz he got smart and would look underneath her crib for ones that she had dropped and got left under there. What a little stinker!
I must say as of now he is doing a lot better. I think he has outgrown his bad binky habit! His favorite thing now is to find them and put them away, or give them to Nae's when she his honory.
