For a few months now, we have been talking about if/when to take Megan's binky away. We gradually moved her to only having the binky at nighttime or naps. It was definitely a dependent for her and for us though. We knew that if we gave it to her, she would calm down. So we decided that we would need to take it from her around her 2nd birthday but were definitely not looking forward to it. After a lot of thought and talking to friends, we heard about an idea of sending the binky up with some helium balloons and making a sort of ceremony about it to say goodbye rather than just making them disappear. For the last couple of weeks we've also been telling her that binkies are for babies and Megan is a big girl now and big girls don't need binkies. She hasn't really liked the idea, shaking her head at us but we've tried to talk to her about it to make her understand a bit more.

When we got back from the zoo, we decided it was time. We had a huge balloon left from her party and tied two of her binkies to it. We took it out to the backyard and after talking to Megan on the way home a little bit more about it, we said goodbye to the binkies. She waved and said, "Bye Bye!" We watched it and waved at it for as far as we could see it and then played in the backyard for awhile to distract her. I had to go to school and Josh took on the challenge of putting her down for her nap and bedtime all by himself. I checked in on him from school and he said that she had done really well. She asked for her binky a couple of times and Josh reminded her of saying goodbye to it and watching it go up with the balloons and she was okay with it.

They walked to Fred Meyer last night to get her birthday present from us and when they walked back it was dark. Megan asked for her binky and Josh reminded her again of where it went. She pointed up and said, "Binky?" and he said, "Yep, they went up into the sky." So Megan looked up into the sky and there was a bright shining star and she said, "There it is!"

She is so precious!!